Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st May 2008 22:19 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
Gnome In November 2007, we reported on the GNOME Board Elections of 2007, where Jeff Waugh was getting serious slack flack from some people in the GNOME community. One of the complaints centred around Waugh's apparent inability to properly take care of requests to be syndicated on Planet GNOME, or other maintenance issues related to PGO. Six months later, this complaint is still valid, according to Rodney Dawes.
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by troy.unrau on Fri 2nd May 2008 14:13 UTC
troy.unrau
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2007-02-23

Planet gnome is really not so much worse off than other planets out there. It is definitely not an essential service to the development of Gnome (after all, they have irc, mailing lists, Guadec, etc. for the real work).

So the fact that it exists at all is simply out of convenience to the users who would like a little insight into the workings of gnome without having to dig through all the mailing lists. I mean, isn't that why all planets exist?

Anyway, you guys are making a big deal about a service that is neither essential, nor particularly important. If it was the development mailing lists or the source repo, then there'd be cause for concern.

(Posted by an unhappy KDE contributor - unhappy to see his friends at gnome attacked this way, that is, even if jdub really is an arse...)