Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

[kloeri@gentoo.org]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:29:28PM +0100, Grobian wrote:
> kloeri@gentoo.org wrote:
> >You must not have read the [#forums-whining]_ reference as that makes it
> >quite clear that existing methods isn't adequate. Even if you think the
> >apache maintainers made lots of mistakes you can't really fault us for
> >not trying to get the news of config changes out to all users.
> 
> I haven't, that's correct.  However, a reference should be a source for 
> additional information.  A small exerpt or recap of that thread is not 
> in the GLEP.  Also, [#forums-whining]_ was not referenced in the quoted 
> part, the reference only follows later on.
> 
> Going into answering your question, the thread suggests for instance an 
> RSS-feed with this info.  Also the GLEP mentions 5 distinct sources, of 
> which I personally think at least two will be effective for a certain 
> group of people.
> 
> That last thing was what I was aiming at.  For some it might work quite 
> well if the apache2 upgrade stuff (as sent out on gentoo-dev) was 
> communicated through gentoo-announce.  Hence my doubts on whether "[they 
> are not] particularly effective" is a general statement that applies to 
> any situation.
> 
If we were only aiming at a certain group of people there would be no
need to change anything. The apache announcements reached lots of users
but still left a large chunk of users in the dark. Moving the news to
-announce or some RSS feed wouldn't change anything as the basic problem
with these methods is that people have to actively search out important
news instead of news getting pushed to them.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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