From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWaXS-0007MK-Gi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:21:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9VEJo5O013067; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:19:50 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9VEGqr8001930 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:16:52 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j9VEGxBd008970 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:17:00 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:16:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051030090623.GA12148@superlupo.rechner> References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20051030090623.GA12148@superlupo.rechner> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-mm+QTWep0CxV0B6VwShI" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:16:22 -0500 Message-Id: <1130768183.26789.64.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: c379411f-ea93-4919-8d07-9c498e605783 X-Archives-Hash: 6183a43717c3c17b76ed06a8a9ea9203 --=-mm+QTWep0CxV0B6VwShI Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 10:06 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: > 4) Forums. We have the News and Announcements box on the forums and we > will set sticky threads upon request. In fact we even stick threads > and posts announcements if we encounter something worth mentioning > in our opinion. Since we may not notice everything feel free to > contact us in case you have some information worth sharing. >=20 > Wrt to Chris' email i think the GWN is a good source of > information and currently seems to feature most important things. If > some people think that's not enough and someone steps up to do a RSS > feed, news on the Gentoo website or whatever, it would of course be a > good move, too. Setting up a centralized contact that forwards that > information to website, mailing lists, forums, GWN, etc could be useful. Well, I don't know if this is really within scope, but we do have a PR team. I know that at one point they were pretty understaffed, so I don't know whether this would be something they would want to undertake or not, but if they did, then we already have everything in place. > The most important thing in my opinion would however be to release > important information more actively. If a problematic update is ahead, > information about it should go through all channels before users > experience problems. Since the maintainer knows best, he should be the > one contacting the others to release the information. Again, a > centralized contact would be helpful here since the maintainer does > not need to contact everyone and their mother then. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-mm+QTWep0CxV0B6VwShI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDZic2kT4lNIS36YERAm9dAJ9ZU8N8EbKedCwQObgBehIU5WJ+1QCePgMv lmsecS8NYTY0jR97j+zBbEs= =LW0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-mm+QTWep0CxV0B6VwShI-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list