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Everything you ever wanted to know about [http://planet.mozilla.org/ Planet Mozilla], and then some. (Sort of. Mostly.)
Everything you ever wanted to know about [http://planet.mozilla.org/ Planet Mozilla], and then some.


Planet Mozilla is a long-standing and incredibly valuable resource for the Mozilla Community.  As our community has grown and number of projects increased, we (the Planet peers) have decided codify some of our previously-unwritten-but-generally-understood policies, and clarify the reasoning behind them.  
Planet Mozilla is a long-standing and incredibly valuable resource for the Mozilla Community.  As our community has grown and number of projects increased, we (the Planet peers) have decided codify some of our previously-unwritten-but-generally-understood policies, and clarify the reasoning behind them.  
This document was last updated in November, 2015.


== Being added to Planet Mozilla ==
== Being added to Planet Mozilla ==
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=== Approvals ===
=== Approvals ===
You must have some demonstrated involvement with the Mozilla project
You must have some demonstrated involvement with the Mozilla project or community in order to be included on Planet Mozilla. This will be evaluated per-addition by members of the Planet team; Module owner approval is not required, but may of course be sought in the event of disagreement.
or community in order to be included on Planet Mozilla. This will be
evaluated per-addition by members of the Planet team; Module owner
approval is not required, but may of course be sought in the event of
disagreement.


Planet is a community of people, not products, services, and
Planet is a community of people, not products, services or bits.  Each blog must be the work of an individual community member, and syndicated articles should (generally) be tagged for Planet inclusion. Participants are obviously free to blog about what they are working on, but we want to keep planet for the people, though exceptions will be made by the Planet team (Mozilla Blog, Planet blog for example).
bits.  Each blog must be the work of an individual community member, and
syndicated articles should (generally) be tagged for Planet inclusion.
Participants are obviously free to blog about what they are working on, but we
want to keep planet for the people, though exceptions will be made by
the Planet team (Mozilla Blog, Planet blog for example).


If there are any questions that need to be answered prior to approval,
If there are any questions that need to be answered prior to approval, they will be posted in the bug -- please remember to check your bug sporadically until it is closed and resolved.
they will be posted in the bug -- please remember to check your bug
sporadically until it is closed and resolved.


=== Requesting feed changes ===
=== Requesting feed changes ===
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== Having a blog post removed from Planet ==
== Having a blog post removed from Planet ==
Individual posts can be removed from Planet if absolutely necessary, such as in rare instances when something private has been accidentally posted.  The original poster must [http://bit.ly/planetmobug file a bug] to request the removal, or contact a peer directly in cases of emergency. ''Posts will only be removed if the original post has also been removed from the source blog''.
Individual posts can be removed from Planet if absolutely necessary, such as in rare instances when something private has been accidentally posted.  The original poster must [http://bit.ly/planetmobug file a bug] to request the removal, or contact a peer directly in cases of emergency. ''Posts will only be removed if the original post has also been removed from the source blog'', and due to the nature of syndicated feeds any private information such as passwords should be assumed to have been circulated regardless of how quickly the Planet team responds.


== Tagged Feeds ==
== Tagged Feeds ==
Confirmed users, Bureaucrats and Sysops emeriti
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