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 1EW99q-00016b-E6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:07:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9U96cpA025057; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:06:38 GMT Received: from mailrelay2.tu-graz.ac.at (mailrelay.tu-graz.ac.at [129.27.2.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9U94spX025003 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:04:54 GMT Received: from localhost (M2553P029.adsl.highway.telekom.at [212.183.51.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailrelay2.tu-graz.ac.at (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9U94pnu008403 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:04:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:06:23 +0100 From: Wernfried Haas To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users Message-ID: <20051030090623.GA12148@superlupo.rechner> References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel (Linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 129.27.10.19 X-Archives-Salt: d44351c2-5816-439a-a377-e3a00c28309f X-Archives-Hash: 5e5f6e5eb2fe2ec526939646e441efff 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 -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org IRC: #gentoo-forums on freenode - email: forum-mods at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list