Currently the entries of each blob post on the planet.jboss.org index page are truncated to 200 characters. A potential reader can barely figure out what the blog entry is about from such a short summary.

As with all other well-known community planet sites (debian, fedora, ubuntu, kde), the reader should be able to read the whole entry from the index page. That's core to what makes a planet feed a planet feed.

Admittedly, showing the whole entry allows a very long blog post to dominate the page (and a lot of scrolling to skip over it). Therefore, a fair tradeoff is to truncate when the post becomes unreasonably long and offer an "Expand this post" link which reveals the remainder of the entry when clicked. A reasonable amount to truncate is at 5 paragraphs.

I'm open to having a community poll to find out if the majority agrees.

The goal is to show enough content to engage the potential reader, but not so much that a very long post dominates the vertical space.