Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: regular project updates

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:41 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:28:13 +0100 Grobian <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | I'm thinking of quite dull news, so absolutely not meant to be a
> | publication like GWN, but just thingis like some commits on the
> | portage sources that say to fix/implement X, a discussion on project
> | ML Y working on Z.
> 
> Would our users really like to read a lengthy discussion on the
> intricacies of the changes made to versionator.eclass to improve
> performance, or the way in which the ten zillion packages needed by
> the new KDE/Gnome/Xorg release were keyworded for a particular arch,
> or the design decisions made for vim-spell.eclass to avoid requiring
> that our users have four gigs of RAM? I mean, it'd be pretty frickin'
> boring...
I think Fabian is targetting cross-dev communications there ...

It'd be time-consuming but sounds interesting.

There's lots of "unimportant" info, like ... say ... what fixes are in
the new baselayout? Is gcc4 safe to use? ...
Having all that in a central place (like planet.g.o, only moderated)
might help - if there is enough support! 

Patrick
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