Make GNOME blogs more accessible

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I came across GNOME blogs ( https://blogs.gnome.org ) where GNOME devs post their thoughts and opinions.

Though they are unofficial blogs, they’re interesting to read and I find them to be very useful and informative.

But, I don’t find them accessible. Meaning the blogs are not categorized by date / popularity / comments / topic / technology across users like GNOME discourse. I find GNOME discourse to be very good in this aspect.

Communication is an important part of an organization, and I think blogs are an important part of that. Apart from the regular discussions in Gitlab bug reports / merge requests / matrix and the Q/A in GNOME discourse, I think the blogs have their own space in GNOME and it should be actively promoted and maintained.

Question:

  • Is there a way to index / tag the existing blogs, and present them in a more accessible way to the user ?

Some interesting blogs:

  1. Tobias Bernard’s Blog:

    For anyone new to GNOME and wants to know how GNOME works, or anyone who wants to see a particular feature added to GNOME, these blogs should be handy.

    Community Power Part 1: Misconceptions
    Community Power Part 2: The Process
    Community Power Part 3: Just Do It!
    Community Power Part 4: The GNOME Way
    Community Power Part 5: First Steps

  2. Michael Catanzaro’s Blog:

    For anyone wanting to submit quality crash information while creating issues in Gitlab / Github / Bugzilla, this blog should be handy.

    Creating Quality Backtraces for Crash Reports

  3. Sophie’s Blog:

    Viewing Images in GNOME: Loupe and Glycin

  4. Felipe Borges’s Blog:

    An update on GNOME Settings

Note: These are just some blogs which I came across at random in the last few days, since I could not decide what to read as the blogs are not properly indexed, as mentioned above.

Cheers!

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Actually, why do we even have blogs.gnome.org? Isn’t that what planet gnome is for? What makes them different?

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Not all blogs on blogs.gnome.org are aggregated on Planet GNOME.

Anybody with a Foundation membership can ask for a blog to be hosted on gnome.org; projects, too, can be hosted there. Planet GNOME has more specific rules than “it’s a blog by a foundation member or a GNOME project”.

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Ah, that explains it. It’s not very obvious though.

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Yeah, Planet GNOME predates the existence of blogs.gnome.org, and the editorial rules of Planet are not excessively prominent. Should probably end up in the handbook that will replace the wiki.

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All of those blogs are syndicated on Planet GNOME, which is the recommended source for reading personal blogs from GNOME contributors, and it has been for nearly 20 years.

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Thanks for the clarification. I think this should be advertised better.

Most folks know what a blog means, but not what https://planet.gnome.org means. That’s something very specific to GNOME.

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