From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:54:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080322195458.2af6a5b9@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E4DF2F.2030304@gentoo.org>
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Hi,
Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>:
> I thought we had learnt something about not communicating with our
> userbase, but it looks like this lesson has already been forgotten.
> While I appreciate there probably are valid reasons for the delay of
> the beta and the release of 2008.0, I don't think there is any excuse
> not to update the published release schedule, nor for the utter lack
> of communication about this issue with our users. A short message on
> the frontpage of www.gentoo.org with a new (even if tentative) ETA,
> and some kind of explanation for the delay would certainly be much
> appreciated.
Yes please, people are asking a lot on the forums, so a news item
would be nice. I contributed a rough draft but I have not enough
insight into the reasoning to make it something proper...a "2008.0 will
be delayed but we are still working on it" would be sufficient in my
eyes.
V-Li
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 10:20 [gentoo-dev] Testing to see if services have crashed on hardened Roy Marples
2008-03-21 10:37 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-03-21 12:07 ` Roy Marples
2008-03-22 10:27 ` [gentoo-dev] Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release Ben de Groot
2008-03-22 15:39 ` Sylvain Alain
2008-03-22 21:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-03-22 18:54 ` Christian Faulhammer [this message]
2008-03-23 2:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chrissy Fullam
2008-03-23 5:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-03-23 12:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Richard Freeman
2008-03-23 12:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-03-23 13:00 ` Ben de Groot
2008-03-25 19:45 ` [gentoo-dev] Testing to see if services have crashed on hardened Fabian Groffen
2008-03-21 10:44 ` Natanael Copa
2008-03-21 12:08 ` Roy Marples
2008-03-21 12:39 ` Natanael Copa
2008-03-21 13:08 ` Roy Marples
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