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

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:08:50 +0000
"Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org> wrote:
> You're arguing this news item will only be shown to paludis users, but
> you're forgetting that paludis users also use many other packages in
> the tree. Assume user X has many packages on his system including
> package A. The maintainer of package A decides to create a news item
> about an upcoming change that will break package A. If user X on the
> next update of the tree gets 25 news items, with 15 of them about
> config file changes, the probability of the user disregarding package
> A's news item is far greater than if the user only gets 3 or 4 news
> items, wouldn't you agree?

You're looking at it the wrong way.

Assume the user gets 25 news items (which is wildly unlikely), 25 of
which contain useful information. Then the user is likely to pay
attention to all the news items. If, however, only 10 of them contain
useful information, they'll likely ignore them all in the future.

So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for
the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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