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 1HklwR-0005HN-JX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 May 2007 18:58:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l46IvGPk012019; Sun, 6 May 2007 18:57:16 GMT Received: from randymail-a7.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-74.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l46IrMBi005777 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 18:53:23 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.4] (c-75-68-33-130.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [75.68.33.130]) by randymail-a7.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAE4B72E2 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 11:53:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 14:53:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <1178433936.13701.10.camel@ip6-localhost> <200705061439.13479.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> <20070506194223.3ff96c3b@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <20070506194223.3ff96c3b@snowflake> 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: <200705061453.22578.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> X-Archives-Salt: b7a18b87-2cf6-4445-8db6-f51db4a10587 X-Archives-Hash: 38fc99e9327a2215debd6dd46cec6134 On Sunday 06 May 2007 2:42:23 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2007 14:39:13 -0400 > > Dan Meltzer wrote: > > No, its designed to save messages for users to read. It was > > implemented because important information scrolled off the screen in > > major updates. If a user chooses not to read warn level messages > > from elog then they are responsible for the breakage, why abuse news > > for it? > > One of the reasons GLEP 42 was necessary was because users *don't* read > things delivered by other methods. And they are magically going to read the news? I doubt it if it continues to be as trivial as the first suggested item. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list