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 1EYsb0-0005kf-AK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:02:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA6M0OOV000431; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:00:24 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 jA6Luhr6025204 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:56:43 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 1EYsVH-0005FB-7h for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:56:43 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EYsVB-0007Xr-U6 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:56:37 +0000 Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:56:35 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Message-ID: <20051106215635.16d8d03f@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <436DBFEE.4030602@gentoo.org> References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> <436C8951.4010008@gentoo.org> <20051105173426.1ce20468@snowdrop.home> <436D32F3.7010809@gentoo.org> <20051105230709.17ecd036@snowdrop.home> <436DBFEE.4030602@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99-rc2 (GTK+ 2.6.10; 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_Sun__6_Nov_2005_21_56_35_+0000_.70mJhRvnvhq9Bqv; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2b3dd6f5-f436-430d-a2f6-3892bcb931d5 X-Archives-Hash: 5299acab647b399466e55732b9c69686 --Signature_Sun__6_Nov_2005_21_56_35_+0000_.70mJhRvnvhq9Bqv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:33:50 +0100 Grobian wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > | Which means you won't be able to satisfy your "preemptive" | > | requirement. | >=20 | > Not at all. You can warn users repeatedly, but there comes a point | > when trying to warn them any further becomes futile. |=20 | Then what is the point of this GLEP? Instead, just warn people | through existing intrastructure, which is cheap from an engineering | perspective because everything is already there in place, and don't | think of implementing all kinds of extras just to warn a user one | extra time, since "trying to warn them any further becomes futile" | anyway. The current warning levels we have are insufficient. This GLEP proposes a new system for warnings which will be far harder to accidentally ignore. There are, however, limits to how far we can reasonably go before we make the solution worse than the problem. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML, anti-newbie conspiracy) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Sun__6_Nov_2005_21_56_35_+0000_.70mJhRvnvhq9Bqv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDbnwV96zL6DUtXhERAof4AJ9EijcuEo3g/4mWVOOl4AtzfepFGQCfZ5gS DLuykLKASXI8wEn9j69MSnY= =mmsa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sun__6_Nov_2005_21_56_35_+0000_.70mJhRvnvhq9Bqv-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list