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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkOKi-0002Wi-62 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 17:46:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45Hj5eG000441; Sat, 5 May 2007 17:45:05 GMT Received: from dd14500.kasserver.com (dd14500.kasserver.com [85.13.135.241]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l45HgjkJ029704 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 17:42:45 GMT Received: from hoshino (unknown [82.139.196.236]) by dd14500.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B59192A2 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 19:42:45 +0200 (CEST) From: expose@luftgetrock.net To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 19:42:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705042249.48267.peper@gentoo.org> <20070505182147.21bdd7ff@snowflake> <20070505173422.GA1263@superlupo.rechner> In-Reply-To: <20070505173422.GA1263@superlupo.rechner> 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705051942.36608.expose@luftgetrock.net> X-Archives-Salt: ab14a3d9-e18c-4b36-b7c8-24a61306270f X-Archives-Hash: e620896d323b46a48785f8999b4f9da5 Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > 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. > > No one answered my question asked in Message-ID: > <20070505090630.GA14287@superlupo.rechner> what paludis actually does > in case it encounters a config file using the old syntax so far, but > as long it doesn't break the system, it doesn't need a news item. > GLEP 42 talks about critical, really important news, not just useful > ones. > > Imho the whole GLEP process is being abused to define some scenario to > get the support for news, and then push it through for stuff way > outside the boundaries defined in the GLEP. > > cheers, > Wernfried That's the point. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list