Received: from makus.postgresql.org (makus.postgresql.org [98.129.198.125]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7E4190F9CF for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:19:55 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RrqDB-0003vZ-HN for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:19:54 +0000 Received: by yenm6 with SMTP id m6so1702396yen.19 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:40 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.157.10 with SMTP id n10mr25545925yhk.41.1327925980762; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.205.16 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <96e5156e36277877d18484a5148ad516@biglumber.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:19:40 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Planet posting policy From: Magnus Hagander To: Dave Page Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Pg-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-Archive-Number: 201201/72 X-Sequence-Number: 20470 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:47, Dave Page wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane = wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: RIPEMD160 >> >> >>> We currently have a strict posting policy for planet.postgresql.org >>> (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Planet_PostgreSQL), which has been >>> applied in such a way that it prevents users posting anything to their >>> syndicated blogs which may be remotely considered to be advertising. >>> This has tripped up a number of our regular contributors in the past, >>> including some senior community members who have posted technical >>> content about their work which happens to be on commercial products >>> around PostgreSQL. >> >> Can you point to specific examples of blog posts that have been >> self-moderated as to not appear on Planet due to our policies? >> I think that would help this dicussion if we could see some actual >> problematic posts. I am open to changing the wording. > > I have no idea of any posts that have been self-moderated, except for > one of my own which I posted only to the EnterpriseDB blog: > http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/2011/08/23/postgres-enterprise-manager-i-lo= ve-it-when-a-plan-comes-together/ > > I would have liked to have been able to post that to my regular blog > so it appeared on Planet, though had I thought that possible I would > have gone into more technical detail about how the product is > architected, and made it less "marketing" sounding. I think that blog post itself is a very good example of content we *don't* necessarily want on planet. It's too bad you didn't write a version that had the technical detali and was less marketing/pressrelease:y to compare with :-) Because AIUI, you don't actually suggest changing the policies as far as to allow that post as it is - it would've allowed the modified version only? --=20 =A0Magnus Hagander =A0Me: http://www.hagander.net/ =A0Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/