Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:15:55 +0200
Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Only Paludis users will use the news item. To Paludis users, the
> > news item is not a triviality or noise. To everyone else it's
> > irrelevant.
> 
> How does it matter exactly whether it's paludis users, gcc users, php
> users, apache users or whoever else who will use the news item? Let's
> not misuse news framework for stuff that

Er, that's one of the main points of GLEP 42's design: it allows
delivery of news items that are important to a subset of users only to
that subset. The size of the subset is entirely irrelevant.

> For this particular case, you can (and do even) advise specifically
> the affected users only on runtime that the config files syntax has
> been changed. (Frankly, you don't even need elog stuff for similar
> things; everyone concerned will get the message paludis spits on the
> screen when they try to use it).

Experience and user feedback has shown that in situations like this
users want an accompanying news item even if the application does output
deprecation warnings.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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