FAQ
Who owns and maintains Planet Apatar?
What feeds are aggregated on Planet Apatar?
How often does Planet Apatar update?
Can I get my feed added to Planet Apatar?
Do you apply some kind of filtering, or do you use categories?
May Apatar employees blog about anything they want?
I have a comment about Planet Apatar - where do I send my feedback?
What is Planet Apatar?
Planet Apatar is an aggregation of blogs and news from Apatar developers and users. Nothing here necessarily represents the views of Apatar, Inc.
Where the idea came from?
Planet Apatar was built taking idea from Planet MySQL and other “Planet” sites covered in the “Planetarium” section of the home page at Planet Apatar.
Who owns and maintains Planet Apatar?
Apatar, Inc. owns the domain name www.planetapatar.org and the Apatar Community is responsible for its maintenance, together with the web team. Currently, Alex Khizhnyak handles most issues.
What feeds are aggregated on Planet Apatar?
Any blogs and other feeds related to data integration, open source and Apatar can be aggregated on Planet Apatar. We currently have four feed classes:
- Aggregate: feeds with more than one author
- Community: feeds from individuals
- Employee: blogs by employees of Apatar, Inc.
- Official: official news feeds from the other Apatar, Inc. sites
he feed classes are just a logical ordering, it allows the system to show a little logo next to employees, and show a different color for official news items.
How often does Planet Apatar update?
In line with requirements from our sources, we update only once per hour. New entries are added to the local archive, and updates to existing are also detected and processed (posts timestamped more than one hour in the future are ignored). The front page and RSS 2.0 feed are then generated statically, to have an optimal response time and reduce server load. The main page displays the latest 10 entries (paged, you can browse), the RSS feed contains the latest 50 entries.
Can I get my feed added to Planet Apatar?
Sure! Fill in the submission form linked from the top navigation bar.
Do you apply some kind of filtering, or do you use categories?
Planet Apatar can take categorized feeds, but it can also handle an uncategorized feed: it then filters for Apatar-related content using a simple regular expression with some magic keywords. All relevant text fields from feed entries are scanned. So this way, a general blog or news source that occasionally has a Apatar related item can be aggregated also. Only entries that pass the filter are stored in the local archive.
May Apatar employees blog about anything they want?
Yes, definitely. Of course some work they do and information they have is confidential, but most of the Apatar development process is open anyway. So it is left to the individual author’s discretion what they feel they can or should write about.
I have a comment about Planet Apatar - where do I send my feedback?
Just use the feedback link in the top navigation bar. Thanks!