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 1EYrMx-0007hw-6f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:44:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA6Kg4sJ027690; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:42:04 GMT Received: from mail.gnqs.org (myrddraal.demon.co.uk [62.49.28.63]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA6KcVMT010653 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:38:32 GMT Received: from mogheiden.gnqs.org ([192.168.0.20]) by mail.gnqs.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EYrHN-0003HF-DQ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:38:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two From: Stuart Herbert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <436CAC58.4090809@gentoo.org> References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> <436C8951.4010008@gentoo.org> <20051105111006.GA14844@kloeri> <436C9798.5020805@gentoo.org> <20051105114729.GB14844@kloeri> <436CAC58.4090809@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-SEDoUqeyAH4U4Q7o4FhW" Organization: Gentoo Linux Project Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:37:14 +0000 Message-Id: <1131309435.8543.16.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> 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 2.2.3 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: Spam detection software, running on the system "demandred.gnqs.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:58 +0100, Grobian wrote: > A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN. But *many* more don't. That's what we learned from the Apache package refresh, and what we've also learned from the PHP5 work. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 7.5 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-Archives-Salt: e4d391ab-3cd8-4695-b35a-dfe2da1d98a2 X-Archives-Hash: 820abc06646f62ef187a976f13f08f63 --=-SEDoUqeyAH4U4Q7o4FhW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:58 +0100, Grobian wrote: > A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN.=20 But *many* more don't. That's what we learned from the Apache package refresh, and what we've also learned from the PHP5 work. > Works fine for me. What works for you is irrelevant to this conversation. =20 What matters is getting news out to 100% of our userbase - or as near to that as possible. Saying that it works for you, and so there isn't a problem, isn't a useful contribution. > The GLEP *is* targetted at a certain group of people It is targeted at every single Gentoo user. Without exception or discrimination. > What the GLEP does is twofold: > 1. Suggest special (**important**) news items to be accepted within > Gentoo, and them being stored somewhere > 2. Desparately push this news to users, because it seems that they don't > read information which is not available (yet! see 1). The information was available via several sources, but this did not reach a wide enough audience. As a result, we're proposing a new mechanism for delivering news - one that we believe will be much more successful. > So thank you for letting me realise that this GLEP should be splitted in=20 > two. No thanks. =20 Best regards, Stu --=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C -- --=-SEDoUqeyAH4U4Q7o4FhW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDbml6DC+AuvmvxXwRAhfjAJ4ju8zm7bOzqVJX//ipDaD2sHDOWgCcCVDh wUuiz9at4fpz0fhfP5UF7DY= =90Rz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SEDoUqeyAH4U4Q7o4FhW-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list