Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: modifications to GLEP42

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Sat, 05 May 2007 14:44:49 -0700
Mike Doty <kingtaco@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Well, if you're going about improving it, start by adding in the
> > Display-If-Upgrading-From-To: header. It'll be a nuisance to
> > implement, but it'll be far more useful than any of the rest of
> > this.
>
> Your word doesn't inspire most of us.  If you think this is a good
> idea, you need to explain why.

There's no way to mark a news item as "to be read" when a user upgrades
from, say, <foo/bar-1.2 to >=foo/bar-1.2 . Ideally there would be. It
wasn't in the first GLEP because it's trickier from a package manager
implementation perspective.

> >> 2.  Standards for news items:  Based on the paludis news item
> >> thread, it's clear we need some standards for what we release as
> >> news.  If combined with #1 we can set different standards and give
> >> the users some more choice on what they accept and what we publish.
> > 
> > It's quite simple. If releasing a news item improves the user
> > experience of affected users more than not releasing it, the news
> > item should be released.
>
> It clearly isn't that simple.

Well, it is in theory. In practice determining into which category a
particular news item falls isn't so easy. Perhaps this should be left
alone until after we have experience delivering, say, a few dozen news
items to a wider audience. Currently the only evidence we have as to
the level of news items expected by users is fairly limited.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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