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

[Wernfried Haas <amne@gentoo.org>]

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.

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.

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.

cheers,
	Wernfried

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