Lots of things going on in Planet GNOME land recently.
Steve Garrity provided a very sexy update to Seth and Diana’s speech-balloon concept. It makes Planet GNOME a delight to read all over again. More tweaks on the way. Thanks, Steve!
I’ve revitalised the news page, which will end up moving to news.gnome.org when it has achieved full rockingness. If you have an RSS feed of announcements and news about your GNOME-related project, let me know, and I will put it up! (GStreamer and GNOME Journal are commented out in the config because their feeds are broken, but we’ll sort those out soon.) Also planning to display the latest gnomefiles.org updates, tarball uploads and stuff like that (in sidebars or something).
If anyone would like to do some FACE HACKING, we’re missing hackergotchis of the following Planet GNOME members: kris mpesenti rodo dobey mariano danilo elijah mkestner tberman richb jpr acs alex martyn svu kuzman garnacho benm danw donscarletti kharish vivien jvic kikidonk gmorten notzed gekker
Update: gnrfan has sent hackergotchis for danilo and notzed. Thanks!
Finally, a “future of pgo” question. When it appeared that pgo was a roaring success, I suddenly had a lot of questions in my head about future maintainership, how it would be done, and what sort of policy there should be for additions and so on. Strong editorial control turned out to be popular and effective, but I’ve always wanted to “put it in CVS”, which is short for “figure out a sensible policy for open maintainership”. Simply putting it in CVS doesn’t solve the difficult part of the problem, you see.
So, I’ve come up with five suggestions. Please let me know what you think (via email), or if you have another suggestion. In no particular order, but numbered so we can refer to them by number… 
- Maintain pgo in CVS under strong editorial control, as if it were a normal code module with a tough-as-nails maintainer.
- Only Foundation members may be included on pgo.
- Only committers may be included on pgo.
- Allow any Foundation member to add any feed to pgo, with the permission of the author. This means a Foundation member can add feeds for people who are doing cool GNOME work but are not yet Foundation members themselves, and maintain his or her own feed information. (In practice, Foundation members without CVS access would have to ask someone to make the change.)
- Allow any committer to add any feed to pgo, with the permission of the author. Otherwise, as above.
