I’ve made an awkward and difficult decision that I hope doesn’t make anyone feel bad: effective immediately I’ve removed any feeds from Planet Larry / Larry the Universe that were from developers who have retired from the Gentoo project.
I setup the planet feeds mainly so that regular users of Gentoo Linux could talk about and share their experiences, and I want to get back to keeping it with them primarily in mind. I tend to think that ex-developers have more weight with their posts, which tends to cause some unbalance that I was never comfortable with.
Speaking of users, I am always looking for new bloggers to get added, so if you are a Gentoo user who blogs about computer experiences, be sure to sign up.
That’s all for now.
Edit: I originally took this post down, and am now restoring it. I still haven’t decided if this is a permanent change or not. I might create a planet just for ex-developers, or reintegrate them somehow. I dunno. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
I don’t think that ex-devs should be barred from planet larry. I see what you were thinking of but they are gentoo users after all and so far I did not have the impression that they somehow dominated the feed. If you don’t want them in the “strict” planet larry feed, I think you should at least allow them to be in universe.
They do still bring a good perspective to a user feed.
I’ve always thought like ‘Ah, sad to see them go. But at least some of them are on planet larry!’.
Please bring them back, or I’ll miss them.
I like planet larry for everything it can teach me about gentoo. Loosing them only lessens the experience, no?