Comments on: Good to be back

By: micker

micker — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Keep on Keeping on my friend. I loved what you did with Progeny. I cannot even begin to say how great the things you did with Debian were.

Don’t take any guff from those bastards!

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

As long as Scott and his colleagues feel free to mention Ubuntu and Canonical, you should feel free to mention Progeny.

Please note that I have nothing against Ubuntu, I think it’s great. But the standard that was applied to Ian was not applied to others.

By: Robert McQueen

Robert McQueen — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m happy to read about Progeny on your blog – the entire point of the Planet is to get an idea of the people involved in the project, and working on Progeny is a part of what you are. A “sanitised” feed would undermine that – I also find it pretty interesting, and reassuring that there are jobs out there that I might actually enjoy doing! :)

By: mako

mako — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Joe,

You’re not entirely correct. There have been three people removed from planet that I know of. In *each* case it was because their content was generating a large number of complaints from people. That is the standard.

Once it was for Ubuntu-centric content, once it was for Progeny-centric content and once it was for long content that simply annoyed people (didn’t have to do with technical things at all). In all cases, people were asked to keep the content that was annoying people off planet and were invited back on when they provdided a feed without it.

I’m not saying that this is the idea situation but it’s not as inconsistent and unbalanced as you imply.