Thread: Can we please NOT approve "sale" announcements as news?
Web team, Can we please not approve stuff like this? "20% New Year Discount for all Navicat PostgreSQL GUI" That's in pure violation to our news policies. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL San Francisco
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Josh,
Just in case, seems it has already been removed from wwwmaster.
For the record:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval
Quote: "Other types of announcements, including minor releases,
<neep>pricing changes</neep>, leadership changes, 3rd-party news
coverage and mergers & acquisitions will be rejected. "
gb.-
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Web team,
>>
>> Can we please not approve stuff like this?
>>
>> "20% New Year Discount for all Navicat PostgreSQL GUI"
>>
>> That's in pure violation to our news policies.
>>
>> --
>> Josh Berkus
>> PostgreSQL
>> San Francisco
>>
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> Just in case, seems it has already been removed from wwwmaster. yes, I removed it. > > For the record: > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval > > Quote: "Other types of announcements, including minor releases, > <neep>pricing changes</neep>, leadership changes, 3rd-party news > coverage and mergers & acquisitions will be rejected. " Yes. And despite that, at least one approver seems to be approving everything which is submitted to News without filtering or qualification. I'd really like that person to stop. --Josh
On Friday 30 January 2009 18:29:08 Josh Berkus wrote: > > Just in case, seems it has already been removed from wwwmaster. > > yes, I removed it. > > > For the record: > > > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval > > > > Quote: "Other types of announcements, including minor releases, > > <neep>pricing changes</neep>, leadership changes, 3rd-party news > > coverage and mergers & acquisitions will be rejected. " > > Yes. And despite that, at least one approver seems to be approving > everything which is submitted to News without filtering or > qualification. I'd really like that person to stop. > Is it time to revist the discussion on website news being closed to any news that doesn't come from the project itself? -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com
Robert, > Is it time to revist the discussion on website news being closed to any > news that doesn't come from the project itself? That seems like going to far. We have rules on approvals which would prevent problems, and someone's not following them. Who has access to news approvals other than me, you and Guido? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL San Francisco
On Saturday 31 January 2009 23:43:31 Josh Berkus wrote: > Robert, > > > Is it time to revist the discussion on website news being closed to any > > news that doesn't come from the project itself? > > That seems like going to far. We have rules on approvals which would > prevent problems, and someone's not following them. Who has access to news > approvals other than me, you and Guido? Dave, Magnus, I think Stefan and Devrim, possibly a few others. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com
Robert Treat wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2009 23:43:31 Josh Berkus wrote: >> Robert, >> >>> Is it time to revist the discussion on website news being closed to any >>> news that doesn't come from the project itself? >> That seems like going to far. We have rules on approvals which would >> prevent problems, and someone's not following them. Who has access to news >> approvals other than me, you and Guido? > > Dave, Magnus, I think Stefan and Devrim, possibly a few others. Dave, Devrim, Josh, Magnus, Neil, Guido, Jd, Alvaro, Melanie, Nasby, You and myself. this particular news seems to got approved by devrim on January 26. 17:38 UTC and deleted by Josh 4 days later. Stefan
Stefan, > Dave, Devrim, Josh, Magnus, Neil, Guido, Jd, Alvaro, Melanie, Nasby, You > and myself. Given that Nasby is no longer terribly active in the community, and Neil isn't doing advocacy/web stuff, it seems like they shouldn't be on the wwwmaster-admin list anymore. > this particular news seems to got approved by devrim on January 26. > 17:38 UTC and deleted by Josh 4 days later. So, Devrim? Can you search on a couple other "sale" notices, and announcments of betas and 0.1 updates of commercial software and see who approved them? --Josh
Josh Berkus wrote: > Stefan, > >> Dave, Devrim, Josh, Magnus, Neil, Guido, Jd, Alvaro, Melanie, Nasby, >> You and myself. > > Given that Nasby is no longer terribly active in the community, and Neil > isn't doing advocacy/web stuff, it seems like they shouldn't be on the > wwwmaster-admin list anymore. seems reasonable - not sure why neil was added. Does anybody know? > >> this particular news seems to got approved by devrim on January 26. >> 17:38 UTC and deleted by Josh 4 days later. > > So, Devrim? added him to the CC list - just in case > > Can you search on a couple other "sale" notices, and announcments of > betas and 0.1 updates of commercial software and see who approved them? nope - we only have logs for a week on that particular stuff. Stefan
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> Can you search on a couple other "sale" notices, and announcments of >> betas and 0.1 updates of commercial software and see who approved them? > > nope - we only have logs for a week on that particular stuff. That thing used to send emails out when someone approved something. I'm pretty sure it must've been me who broke that (unless they're all eaten by a spamfilter or something these days). If somebody has the time to look that over, that'd be much appreciated. I don't know when I'll have the time myself. //Magnus
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 11:27 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > this particular news seems to got approved by devrim on January 26. > > 17:38 UTC and deleted by Josh 4 days later. > > So, Devrim? Yeah, I remember I approved that item -- I probably did not follow the contents closely. Sorry about that. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 11:27 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: >>> this particular news seems to got approved by devrim on January 26. >>> 17:38 UTC and deleted by Josh 4 days later. >> So, Devrim? > > Yeah, I remember I approved that item -- I probably did not follow the > contents closely. Sorry about that. Ok, can I please ask you to *never* approve anything unless you read the full contents? If you're short on time, please *leave it to someone else*. Thanks. --Josh