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 1EY2Te-0007NS-Uz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:23:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4ELtSC000656; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:21:55 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 jA4EJhsr019265 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:19:43 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 jA4EJtH7006295 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:19:55 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:19:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200511041002.53538.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <20051104011106.780b46bb@snowdrop.home> <436AB84B.4010406@ieee.org> <200511041002.53538.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-SIqwyzttcakGHHV1XvjY" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:19:07 -0500 Message-Id: <1131113948.18994.13.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: 6cd30bb9-5f76-4e6e-aa16-c26b6bbda951 X-Archives-Hash: 767b571a25640ee49dcffe63a249074d --=-SIqwyzttcakGHHV1XvjY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:02 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > No, gentoo expects people to have access to a webbrowser. But not all the= =20 > time. It is perfectly reasonable to expect people to make a nice printout= =20 > of the handbook at the office, and then take it at home to install a nice= =20 > new gentoo box. We *do* provide the Handbook in PDF on our releases. ;] > > The news directory shouldn't the main source of the migration guides; > > the website should be (one central page that can feed other sources). >=20 > The website should not as it a pull source of information. It requires=20 > users to actively acquire the information. What is worse is that some=20 > users might not update for a prolongued time (6 months). At that time=20 > they will not find the information in the erata list anymore. But they=20 > will get the RELEVANT news delivered by emerge/enews. Right. This is the entire point that Stuart was making from the beginning. The *only* thing that we can guarantee users will look at when doing updates is portage itself. Anything else is ancillary to the tree. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-SIqwyzttcakGHHV1XvjY 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) iD8DBQBDa23bkT4lNIS36YERAuq3AJ4gKVuyqw17JMhixCaIMqTZ+oKlAgCeL+48 JYhYzqWnV5NOpLl7XXWTz3M= =KTYj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SIqwyzttcakGHHV1XvjY-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list