GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 656963
Add Gil Forcada on PGO
Last modified: 2012-08-22 21:10:50 UTC
I've been contributing to GNOME since 2005, both localizing to Catalan (my mother tongue) and helping organizing every GUADEC since then. I'm a proud foundation member, translation project coordination team member [1], the Catalan localization coordinator [2], I'm starting to contribute some meaningful patches to Damned-Lies and from time to time I file bug requests :) As a Catalan I've always blogged in Catalan so I created a specific tag for planet GNOME in English with one entry. Name: Gil Forcada My blog: http://gil.badall.net/tag/planet-gnome/feed/ Hackergotchi: http://gil.badall.net/gforcada.png Nickname: gforcada [1] https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/CoordinationTeam [2] http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/ca/
Hello Gil, First of all I would like to thank you for all your contributions to Planet GNOME. As a general rule, to keep up with the quality of Planet GNOME, we only add blogs that have enough backlog for us to be able to check the frequency and the quality of the older posts (with the exception of GSoC students). Since all your previous GNOME related posts have been in Catalan, I am afraid that your blog is not quite ready yet for Planet GNOME :( However, this doesn't mean that your blog won't ever be added, if you keep blogging in English about GNOME, you can try again in the future. By the way, I have a question/suggestion, have you ever thought about setting up a Catalan Planet? Thanks a lot!
Hi Alberto, Some weeks ago I became the damned-lies (the software behind l10n.gnome.org), I'm a Foundation Member (a must be by the new rules for being added to p.g.o) and I do really want to be added to p.g.o to be able to share what we are doing on the i18n project. I fully understand that you want to see what was written before to decide if a blog is worth or not, but the thing is that by not being on p.g.o there's no much point of blogging if the target audience of the blog itself is not aware or can't reach your blog posts :) Hopefully I can get you to agree on it on GUADEC ;)
As I mentioned you in person, the policy of having a backlog aligned with Planet GNOME's content is a requirement. Post a few times, tweet and G+ about it, that's how you can get readers of your posts in the meantime. If you get that backlog feel free to reopen this bug Gil.
I kind of feel this policies have become much harder over time while less people are posting on planet gnome. Neither twitter (not-free), neither G+ (not-free) are official communication channels for gnome. Gil has been active for so long in the community and will surely post more if he knows that people are actually reading announcements about translations etc. while it doesn't make much sense if only few people read your blog...
The policy is clear and it would be unfair to all the other people who go through the same hoops to add Gil based on facts that are hard to measure in quantitative ways. This actual part of the policy (requiring people to have a backlog, and not add people based just on their involvement with the project but the quality of their blogs), was way more severe in the early days (some people had to blog about GNOME for more than a year to be qualified). I cannot add people based on promise, in the same way that features are not accepted before someone proposes a patch. I know Gil is an important contributor in many areas, and I respect and appreciate him a lot, but being on Planet GNOME is not something that you get out of being a contributor but by being a decent blogger. I cannot evaluate his blogging if he only has two posts in English, and if I added him based on the promise of blogging anybody could ask me the same thing and I wouldn't have the moral right to say no. It is true that G+ and twitter are not official GNOME communication channels, I suggested that as a way to find the motivation to blog in English until he gets accepted (which I am sure that will happen once he blogs about it). He could also ask other people to point to those posts from their blogs as an alternative way, but this is something he needs to do. Guys, try to put yourself in my position for a moment and try to imagine what it means to reject so many blogs that actually don't deserve to be in the Planet, people get pissed off all the time. If I start making too many exceptions with regards the criteria for aggregation people can accuse me of being arbitrary or subjective with my decisions and they would be right to do so.
Ding, dong! Gil's 4th blog entry... sorry I will pester you on every entry I create until you add me :) It's a shame that Berlin is so far from Gran Canaria (well is good for you though :D)
Ding, dong! 5th! http://gil.badall.net/2012/08/21/mark-some-gnome-love-in-damned-lies/ I know I know ... I will wait ...
Welcome to a well deserved aggregation to PGO! Keep up the good work :-)
Btw, I took the liberty to create a new hackergotchi for you: http://planet.gnome.org/heads/gforcada.png Let me know if you don't like it :-)