Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

[Thierry Carrez <koon@gentoo.org>]

Chris White wrote:
> It has made somewhat painfully obvious as of late as to the lack of a 
> centralized source of updates for users.  This has recently become true 
> moreso with the apache2 config file changes and the step to php5.

Random thoughts about this important subject...

Yes, there is a need to push non-obvious upgrade information to our
users, and no, we can't rely on the GWN alone to convey that "official"
message.

The reason why the front page and the gentoo-announce ML (the two
official media for Gentoo -> users information) are under-used is that
approximately 5% of the developers know how to post to them. We should
probably make them more open (with a moderation system to check
message), then they will be used more.

But it's a good idea to have some kind of automatic replication of
frontpage announcements to gentoo-announce and the forums, this will
help getting important messages through. However, I'm not sure *all*
frontpage contents should get replicated to gentoo-announce and the
forums. GWN announcements for example do not need to appear elsewhere...

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Thierry Carrez (Koon)
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