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 1EX0ur-0007Sf-L2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:31:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1IUXXf025247; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:30:33 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA1IQioX030912 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:26:44 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EX0qK-0004rO-1V for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:26:44 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EX0qI-0007bJ-3r for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:26:42 +0000 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:26:39 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Message-ID: <20051101182639.53528a21@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200511011516.28105.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <200511011516.28105.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99-rc2 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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="Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_18_26_39_+0000_bH=h2Qtvg8qrgpLc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 4841ff2a-e509-4786-9ce1-410427b44fcb X-Archives-Hash: 645d24b0bf3c38853638f68a465d4da6 --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_18_26_39_+0000_bH=h2Qtvg8qrgpLc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:16:27 +0100 Paul de Vrieze wrote: | I have one suggestion on an added header. I think that an Overrides:=20 | header should be added. This is for those messages that make a | previous message obsolete. Say for example that an upgrade guide to | modular X was posted, but that a critical error was made in it. This | was fixed, and to make sure that people read the new message, it is | not a higher version. |=20 | It is however not a good idea to have people then read the old | message when the new message is there. Hrm. The advantage of this over simply removing the old news item is that it'll work if the user keeps unread messages around between multiple syncs. The disadvantage is that it makes the implementation a bit trickier. Opinions on the tradeoff? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_18_26_39_+0000_bH=h2Qtvg8qrgpLc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZ7Nh96zL6DUtXhERAhC3AJ9Ywy66v0XfKT/hvHszMuu4KiSeqACfU8pw kzNBjtlLkdsT/a1MS+dF2Ic= =7Xj+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_18_26_39_+0000_bH=h2Qtvg8qrgpLc-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list