We receive messages like this quite frequently:
Please only post in English on planet gnome or at least make non-english posts contain english translations.
If you don’t wish that posts like this are syndicated, please have the planet gnome administrator (jdub) pull a certain tag from your blog.
Thanks for understanding.
Note that Jeff Waugh (maintainer of planet-gnome) has indicated several times that he wants planet-gnome to be a window into the world, work and lives of GNOME hackers and contributors (top-right of the site). That includes “lives”, not just “work”, and for that reason planet-gnome does not filter based on tags like “GNOME”.
This however means that you get to read the personal blogs of the people who are syndicated. Very often they asked specifically about the use of non-English languages and about the fact that content is not always going to be related to GNOME at all. Very often it has been pointed out that is precisely the very idea of planet-gnome.
This means that planet-gnome is meant to have posts in different languages, is meant to have posts that are not about GNOME at all. If that’s not comfortable for you, then please either read another website or install filters.
I’m not planning to change my personal blog because planet-gnome doesn’t use my categories. Although I agree with and like its policies, I didn’t decide them. Please don’t complain to the non-English speaking blog writers who are syndicated on planet-gnome.
My browser sends an HTTP accept header that correctly lists the languages I want to read content in. If Planet Gnome sends me contents in other languages, this is a technical shortcoming of the Planet, not a problem of the bloggers (if they correctly set the language in their feed, that is).
Actually, Planet GNOME is intended to be in English only. That’s why we have lots of related sites for different languages and regions. You’re absolutely right about everything else though, particularly that Planet GNOME is not solely for GNOME-related content. That’s a very important part of its value. Only a minority of readers don’t understand or like that. :-)
(The only reason why posts in other languages have popped up recently was due to a bug in the way Venus — the actively maintained branch of Planet — loads the cache and selects which posts to display. I’ve worked around that now that gnome-fr and gnome-br share the cache with Planet GNOME.)
Ok, I just added a category “english” to all my English items
For people who want to know how:
insert into wp_post2cat (post_id, category_id) select ID, 8 from wp_posts;
So use the feed of:
http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/category/english/
Thanks for posting so lovingly a verbatim copy of my comment :)
Regardless of who was “right of wrong” it is nice to see into the lives of gnome hackers everywhere. If there are 50 different languages on planet gnome, no 1 hacker can read them all. It also makes things difficult and frustrating. That is why there are several different localized versions of planet gnome such as planet gnome br: http://planeta.br.gnome.org/ Using a language as a common denominator allows everyone to read about eachother.
Can you blog about the work you’ve been doing on tracker recently? You’ve been lighting up the ML with xesam patches recently.
It was never my intention to come off as rude.
I really don’t get why it is so hoard to skip the articles that you don’t understand. I think it is a good thing that planet gnome, and some other planets that are not English-centered. The world is multi-language, multi-cultural, and sticking our fingers in the ears and saying “dadada, i am not hearing” will not change it.
gnome, fedora, mozilla and much of the open source software is developed by people who don’t speak English, even if the lowest common denominator is some kind of engrish, that is not reason to shut up every other language, after all we are talking about gnome planet, not “gnome country”.
I’m not involved with the planet in any way except as a reader, and occasional commenter to blogs. I’m not personally opposed to non-english content showing up in my content stream, as it does remind me that there is an entire unverse of people involved in Gnome who are doing things that very well may be interesting. I appreciate it when translations are offered, but not everyone has that opportunity, and there are a wide variety of toolls available to do translations.
One of the things that I persoanally enjoy about the planet and browsers on linux platforms is that if the language requires a different character set, I almost always have that character set available, and can at least recognize that the character set is not a latin1 character set. Oddly enough, that is not the cae in my experience for browsing in a browser on my windows platform at work. However that is liely to be more of an issue with being at work rather than it being windows specifically.
I obviously bow to Jeff in his intent and understanding, but thougt I should note that while there are people wo may not enjoy non-english content being on the planet, there are at least some people who only speak english who are not upset at the situation.
I want to know more about the people, not just their contributions to a specific package. I use the various planets to find new blogs to subscribe to directly.
@Rusty: I particularly enjoy Planet GNOME Korea for artistic value (more than personal understanding). ;-)
Meh. Why do people always have to go out of their way to find things that “offends” them? Get a life, or at least please to remove stick from orifice.
Please, all Planet GNOMErs, post whatever the hell you want! I skip what I don’t want to see and read the rest. Since what I want to see and what you want to see is unlikely to be the same, too much is better than too little.
Thanks!
Rusty says:
“I’m not involved with the planet in any way except as a reader, and occasional commenter to blogs. I’m not personally opposed to non-english content showing up in my content stream, as it does remind me that there is an entire unverse of people involved in Gnome who are doing things that very well may be interesting. I appreciate it when translations are offered, but not everyone has that opportunity, and there are a wide variety of toolls available to do translations.”
I’m only a brazilian reader and I agree totally with Rusty. I also agree with Stoffe, when he say this:
“Please, all Planet GNOMErs, post whatever the hell you want! I skip what I don’t want to see and read the rest. Since what I want to see and what you want to see is unlikely to be the same, too much is better than too little.”
And also with Victor Bogado, with the sentence below:
“[…] that is not reason to shut up every other language, after all we are talking about gnome planet, not “gnome country”.”
;-)
YES ! English ONLY rules !