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 1EYMsn-0000Ca-UI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:10:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA5CA3GZ029482; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:10:03 GMT Received: from www.suchdol.net (www.suchdol.net [82.208.33.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA5C8FJX018286 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:08:16 GMT Received: from slon.basa.dejvice.czf (slon.basa.dejvice.czf [10.18.6.61]) by www.suchdol.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D4E1594 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 13:08:15 +0100 (CET) From: Jan =?utf-8?q?Kundr=C3=A1t?= Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 13:08:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> <1131190463.13050.29.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1131190463.13050.29.camel@localhost> 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="nextPart7257170.St1KY9WeOT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511051308.14506.jkt@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: fedbf650-09e4-46ae-a7b5-ff508679e3ba X-Archives-Hash: a757d2268b2b3c70c6d76297d43034a6 --nextPart7257170.St1KY9WeOT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 05 of November 2005 12:34 Lisa Seelye wrote: > The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which > requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant > news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a > relatively large amount of data along with the news. > > My second concern is the frequency that users sync. A stated concern is > getting news to users before it is too late. Is there any way to gauge > the number of unique users which sync on a regular basis? When is "too > late"? Is there an acceptable window for delivering news? It is not > uncommon for me to refrain from running emerge sync (or even cvs up on > the entire gentoo-x86 tree) for weeks or months on machines I wish to > keep somewhat static. How can users who don't run `emerge --sync` or any other syncing methods=20 perform possibly dangerous upgrades of packages? Cheers, =2Djkt =2D-=20 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth --nextPart7257170.St1KY9WeOT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDbKCuamXfqERyJRcRAowoAJ9O14TYeS5zhP2xU6ZCBmbStfyDJgCbBmj7 yLPQr8L5P/xmoLuqwVruA+0= =DsXJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7257170.St1KY9WeOT-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list