So, I was unwittingly at the center of a little controversy at Planet Debian yesterday.
Now that I understand what happened, I certainly see why Scott removed me. His only real mistake was not passing along the complaints to me, and instead just summarily removing me without even telling me he was doing it and why.
By the way, if you sent a complaint to Scott, please forward a copy to me. Like all writers, I want readers to enjoy what I write, and if this weblog comes across as just a stream of Progeny corporate drivel, then I’m doing something wrong.
If it does, though, I’ll be surprised. Of all the posts about this issue yesterday, not a single person complained. Furthermore, I just went back through the posts I’ve made since I started blogging again, and a grand total of 6 posts out of 38, or 16%, have been about Progeny. Considering I spend well over half my waking hours working on Progeny stuff, and considering how passionate I am about my work, it’s a wonder I haven’t posted more about Progeny than I have.
(Actually, given that the Progeny stuff I do post about here is Debian-related and free to boot, I’d actually been more worried that the other drivel I occasionally post was off-topic. But I’ve been having fun posting that kind of thing, and Deb assures me it shows my personal side, so I’m going to keep doing it.)
If I hear from enough people, I’ll create a special feed for Planet Debian that removes the Progeny stuff. If not, I’ll assume people want to continue reading it and will leave my feed as-is.
In any event, the problem appears to be resolved. All’s well that ends well. Please move along. Nothing to see here. Oh, and please stop flaming Scott. He made an honest mistake.
P.S. – On the NM issue, I’ve had a questionnaire sitting in my inbox since February, so that’s on me now.
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!
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.
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! :)
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.