[fab] Re: fedoranews.org

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2006, 10:47 -0700 schrieb Thomas Chung:
> On 4/18/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> > Well, I'd like to ask what purpose we are up to with fedoranews.org.
> > What does it do what we can't do at fedoraproject.org? Is it outside of
> > the scope from the legal rules of the Fedora Project?
> >
> > <disclaimer: personal feelings involved>
> >
> > BTW, the reason why I dislike fedoranews.org are articles like this:
> > http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Installing_NVIDIA_drivers_manually_on_FC4
> >
> > (that's a improved version -- the first one was even worse). There are a
> > lot better ways to install the drivers that are more clean. See
> >
> > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/3rdPartyVideoDrivers
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.html
> >
> > Also it encourages people sometimes to enable repos that are not
> > compatible with Core and Extras.
> >
> > </personal feelings involved>
> >
> Wow. What did I miss here? I just saw this email with subject "fedoranews.org"

No, I think this one was the most important for you.

> It sounds like someone 

/me

> doesn't like the site just because a few
> contributors wrote some articles in the past and not happy about.

yes

> Please note, this is a community website much like community forum
> such as fedoraforum.org where people can write *whatever* they like

That's okay -- but I have problems if that goes directly into the Red
Hat magazine. 

> and yes, sometimes I let them write an article about *forbidden* item
> by Fedora Project.

"*forbidden* item by Fedora Project." is not my problem -- but there are
better ways to install the nvidia drivers and most of us know that repo
mixing is problematic. That's what I don't like.

To extend above disclaimer: I'm not only involved in Fedora Extras but
also working a lot for a well known 3rd party repo that extends Fedora
Core/Extras and provides the Nvidia drivers. 

> Again, this is the *past* and now that Fedora Project is considering
> "blessing" our site officially, there will be some changes.  For one
> thing, there will be more "moderations" before the artlces get
> published. In other words, a  Review Process will be used among
> moderators before we publish.

Okay.

> However, the site will remain the status of "Community" site where any
> community member can write just about anything they want if they feel
> it will benefit the community.
>
> If you are concerned about the content of our site, I invite you to
> become a moderator and help me to maintain a quality site for Fedora
> Community.

Well, I can try to do that. I'll write a private mail with some things
that probably need to be discussed first -- this is going off topic
here.

CU
thl
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>