The section below is meant to replace the current section "What Can I Post On Planet". It is based on a discussion on debian-project.

What Can I Post On Planet

What Can I Post On Planet?

Planet Debian aims to aggregate the blog posts of people who are active in Debian and not only to aggregate the blog posts about Debian. The point is to provide a window into the community itself. Posts that are about Debian are a great idea and some people will choose to only syndicate "on topic" posts. But other posts are also welcome! We want to learn about the people, their life, opinions (even political) and doings.

There are three simple rules about content on Planet Debian:

1. Debian's community standards fully apply to Planet Debian, that includes following Debian's Code of Conduct.¹

2. Provide individual feeds for each language you post in. The main language for Planet is English.²

3. Try not to annoy people. While there is absolutely no requirement that posts need to be about Debian, if there are a subset of posts that are annoying a large number of people and generating many complaints, you may be asked to consider providing a feed without the posts in question. If you stay away from advertising content (or content that might be confused as such) and from excessively personal information, you should be fine. Please also try to keep the very diverse readership of Planet Debian in mind, stuff which you think is fine could be offensive to others. Remember: try not to annoy people.

4. Be very careful including material from external sites (ie, not your own blog/domain). The occasional picture from elsewhere is fine, but anything that can be (or is) used to track reader's behavior (commonly called webbugs³) is considered bad and grounds for exclusion from Planet. If you regularly need external content, consider providing that from your own site.

5. Avoid posting personal fights, insults or slurs. Planet Debian is not an appropriate medium for this.
6. Posts that are syndicated on Planet Debian that violate our community standards may result in removal of the feed. When a feed is removed, the committer must state the reason for removal, either in a commit message or in the edited file. If unsure, please contact the planet administrators instead of re-adding a feed yourself.