Thread: Re: Add blog RSS feed

On 12/5/24 16:50, James Sewell wrote:
> This is interesting! You're right, that feed will not always meet those 
> requirements because it could have non-Postgres related content from me.
> 
> Let me have a think about how we can address this.

 From what I remember when I signed up there is the ability to only 
include blog posts that have specific tag, in my case that is Postgres.

> 
> - J
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 1:24 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org 
> <mailto:dpage@pgadmin.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 03:09, Jeremy Schneider
>     <schneider@ardentperf.com <mailto:schneider@ardentperf.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Anyone here know who's taking care of Planet Postgres these days?
> 
>         I was chatting w James Sewell on slack and he mentioned that
>         he's got a blog sitting unapproved in the queue for a few weeks
>         now and hasn't heard anything back. I thought when I submitted
>         my blog to planet it got approved really fast, so I wonder if
>         his email hit someone's spam folder or someone's on vacation or
>         something like that?
> 
> 
>       Sorry about that - there was some discussion on whether all the
>     posts on the feed were appropriate or not, and it got forgotten
>     whilst we were waiting for some more content to review. It's
>     approved now.
> 
>     As a general note to all our bloggers, please filter feeds to ensure
>     that all posts meet the requirements of the policy at
>     https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/planet-postgresql/
>     <https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/planet-postgresql/>. The
>     most common reason we get complaints or that we do not approve feeds
>     (by far) is that they fail the "ad test". In short, if a blog
>     discusses something other than PostgreSQL (and that something is not
>     both related to PostgreSQL and released under an OSI approved
>     licence), if all mentions of the something are removed, is the post
>     still useful? If not, it will fail the ad test.
> 
> 
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> 

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Adrian Klaver
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 7:25 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 03:09, Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone here know who's taking care of Planet Postgres these days?
>>
>> I was chatting w James Sewell on slack and he mentioned that he's got a blog sitting unapproved in the queue for a
fewweeks now and hasn't heard anything back. I thought when I submitted my blog to planet it got approved really fast,
soI wonder if his email hit someone's spam folder or someone's on vacation or something like that? 
>
>
>  Sorry about that - there was some discussion on whether all the posts on the feed were appropriate or not, and it
gotforgotten whilst we were waiting for some more content to review. It's approved now. 
>
> As a general note to all our bloggers, please filter feeds to ensure that all posts meet the requirements of the
policyat https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/planet-postgresql/. The most common reason we get complaints or that
wedo not approve feeds (by far) is that they fail the "ad test". In short, if a blog discusses something other than
PostgreSQL(and that something is not both related to PostgreSQL and released under an OSI approved licence), if all
mentionsof the something are removed, is the post still useful? If not, it will fail the ad test. 
>
>

A minor note that the above answer didn't actually answer the OP's
question of who maintains the planet postgres stuff. Perhaps it would
make sense to add an explicit list of maintainers like we do with the
other teams and committees
(https://www.postgresql.org/about/governance/) ?


Robert Treat
https://xzilla.net