From: Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:53:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511011953.40181.mike@gaima.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130873554.8565.2.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org>
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 19:32, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > > 1) Why post to forums.g.o if its on www, why would one check forums
> > > instead of www.
> > Redundancy - to get the attention of those folks that for whatever
> The users I've spoken to about our news situation have expressly stated
> that one of their concerns is that there are *too many* places to check
> for news.
>
> They're not looking for us to scatter news across many mediums - they
> want one place to go.
This user would prefer important news in as many places as possible.
Yes, scattering different types of news about the tree in different places is
stupid, having the same news in 4 different places might be mildly annoying
if you see it 4 times, but if 4 times as many users see it all the better.
Redundancy is a Good Thing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-01 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-31 23:36 [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users) Chris White
2005-10-31 23:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Dan Meltzer
2005-10-31 23:52 ` Dan Meltzer
2005-11-01 7:56 ` Wernfried Haas
2005-11-01 14:32 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-11-01 19:32 ` Stuart Herbert
2005-11-01 19:51 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-11-03 19:40 ` Stuart Herbert
2005-11-04 1:10 ` Nathan L. Adams
2005-11-04 8:22 ` Sami Näätänen
2005-11-04 14:26 ` Xavier Neys
2005-11-04 16:44 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-04 18:53 ` Alec Joseph Warner
2005-11-05 5:08 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-05 5:34 ` Alec Warner
2005-11-07 10:11 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-11-07 12:37 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-07 16:06 ` Grant Goodyear
2005-11-07 16:44 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-07 16:43 ` Stuart Herbert
2005-11-05 9:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-11-05 12:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michiel de Bruijne
2005-11-06 19:32 ` R Hill
2005-11-01 19:53 ` Mike Williams [this message]
2005-10-31 23:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Brian Harring
2005-11-01 10:51 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-01 0:42 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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