Drupal is growing fast, and the planet is starting to get unwieldy (to some people). Most large content-heavy sites give you the opportunity to select certain feeds around your content interest, and there's no reason we can't do so. At the moment I think we should have a "development" (possibly a 'general development' and 'drupal development' feed) and "business" feed. I also think a 'local' feed might be nice. Of course, I would personally still like to subscribe to it all (is it that hard to scan the titles of posts in google reader? nope, not at all), so having a 'full feed' would be great as well.

I marked this as a Google Code-In task, which I would consider to be mostly a documentation and outreach effort, though there will certainly need to be some coding done as well.

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Issue tags: -gci-docs, -gci-proposal, -gci-easy

We're not throwing new open source contributors into a community mine field. Removing gci tags.

If you can build consensus around what needs to be implemented, we can revisit. Please follow the instructions for proposing a GCI task, though.

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Seems like this is a redesign phase 2 task?

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Title: Segment Planet Drupal to Improve UX » Move Planet Drupal to planet.drupal.org, introduce topic categories, feeds, and improved UX
Component: Drupal Planet » Planet Drupal

Plenty of discussions and ideas in #1035184: Form a community consensus on Planet Drupal guidelines

Next step is to come up with a list of requirements that we have in mind for planet.drupal.org. Afterwards, see what can be done.

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bonobo commented

We can do some brainstorming around this in Chicago. Some face to face discussions, some whiteboarding, etc, could move this along.

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christefano commented

The mn_welcome text at planetdrupal.org now links to this issue.

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I would like to see Managing News used as the new Planet Drupal aggregator platform. It can be re-themed to match d.o, if necessary. The main feed could be the firehose. Channels would represent topics (press releases, site building tutorials/documentation, developer tutorials/documentation).

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gerhard killesreiter commented

Theming would be neccessary, yes. Otherwise I am ok with any Drupal solution.

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Status: Active » Postponed

Just cleaning out some old issues.

This is postponed until Managing News is ported to Drupal 7. Perhaps when I have some free time (ha!), I'll see what I can do in that field.

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Component: Planet Drupal » Broken link
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Postponed » Closed (fixed)

@cweagans - Well, that doesn't seem like it is going to happen https://drupal.org/project/managingnews

I'm going to mark this as Won't Fix but please feel to re-open it.

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christefano commented

After hosting a Managing News site on planetdrupal.org back in 2010, I eventually shut it down due to lack of resources. It was nice having a searchable archive of Planet Drupal but the database was getting really big.

Bonnie Bogle at Development Seed (the original creators of Managing News) liked it and tweeted this about it :)

   https://twitter.com/bonnie/status/16856952783

planetdrupal.org now redirects to this issue. Count me in if there's anything I can do to help.