Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:19:53 -0400
Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 May 2007 3:02:38 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 May 2007 14:53:22 -0400
> > Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> wrote:
> > > > 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?
> 
> Experience being two news items about one package.  Expand this to a
> tree size, where the user has around 400-500 packages.  If they get
> news about changes that will increase their experience for each one
> of these, they are looking at reading the New York Times of gentoo
> every day.   It's not going to happen.

And, if that happens (which it won't), we'll have more experience and
we can evaluate future news items based upon that. A more realistic
view for your typical user is less than a news item per week.

> > Paludis users do not consider that news item trivial.
> 
> If I was a paludis user I would considder this trivial.  The same
> information is availible a) from the package itself. b) from the
> changelog, and c) it still works without the change!

But you aren't, and those who are disagree.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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