Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

[Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:40 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote:
> > Well, I think that if users knew that information would be on these
> > places, they might actually check them.  Currently, little to no
> > information ever makes it to either of these locations, so users never
> > bother to check them.  If we were to change that, I'm sure users would
> > eventually pick up on the fact.
> 
> I would agree with Chris here too. As long as we start using this
> channel more and we get the word out, folks will start to be more
> attentive to it. We can't satisfy every user out there and I think this
> channel has a good chance of working.

It would be great if emerge --news displayed the same news as www.g.o.

I don't see www.g.o on its own solving the problem of getting news out
to all our users.  How are you going to tell them that www.g.o and
gentoo-announce now carries much more news?  Post the news on there, or
in GWN, the forums, this mailing list, etc etc?  Aren't those the very
places where we've already learned that not enough of our users look?

I started this discussion because I've experienced that the percentage
of users who read our existing news outlets isn't high enough to reach
many of them in the first place ;-)

Best regards,
Stu
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Stuart Herbert                                         stuart@gentoo.org
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