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 1EWRFo-0000eM-9X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:26:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9V4PwOx006286; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:25:58 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.198.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9V4OBT3011169 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:24:11 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.106] (c-67-181-55-15.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.181.55.15]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005103104241001400sv352e>; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:24:10 +0000 From: Chris White Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:24:08 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <4364EC47.8050803@gentoo.org> <1130722932.8550.33.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> In-Reply-To: <1130722932.8550.33.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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6954648.3B3e9ecYIv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510311324.13875.chriswhite@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: d813ff8b-8df8-41d5-8814-957d3930e5dd X-Archives-Hash: 0c72ab0f0cc4bf46aeb038274b3fb3c4 --nextPart6954648.3B3e9ecYIv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 31 October 2005 10:42, Stuart Herbert wrote: [snip] > Some of those who hold the keys to those places have actively resisted > this in the past. Personally, I don't think the front page or > gentoo-announce will reach many more users than the Forums et al already > do. Yes it will, because when a new users visits the front page for the first t= ime=20 to install Gentoo, they will see the important notices there and put a note= =20 in the back of their heads about it. =20 > I don't think it'll solve our problem. To be technical, neither will emerge --news. None of the solutions present= ed=20 here will be a 100% effective means of resolving the problem. There will=20 always be the one user that doesn't want to listen, and will complain at is= =2E =20 What we're trying to do here is _lessen_ the ammount of times this occurs. = =20 What I suggest is we use _all_ of the above solutions. Combined together=20 they form a more effective means towards achieving the intial goal stated. I'll have a glep for this created soon and posted here. Chris White --nextPart6954648.3B3e9ecYIv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.19 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDZZxtFdQwWVoAgN4RAj4EAJ0d9Lxl1BKlaNvfAUjqITYwyO164gCglM1o g2KHe84Ik66/63+E7XQ+Epc= =7aV7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6954648.3B3e9ecYIv-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list