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 4.50) id 1EWFY5-0003pY-0b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:56:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9UFtfUv032741; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:55:41 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9UFrNZQ020512 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:53:24 GMT Received: from car75-2-82-66-60-148.fbx.proxad.net ([82.66.60.148]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWFUp-0001H2-EK for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:53:23 +0000 Message-ID: <4364EC47.8050803@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:52:39 +0100 From: Thierry Carrez Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050727) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ea27c984-b69f-4df5-ad55-750f16003a65 X-Archives-Hash: 9e6311be1c3af0f5c1ae6526310ed950 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... -- Thierry Carrez (Koon) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list