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 1EWXMo-0000vq-GM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:58:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9VAvat1019088; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:57:36 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 j9VAtmj9028790 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:55:48 GMT Received: from gentoo.xs4all.nl ([213.84.68.112] helo=[10.0.0.2]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWXKO-0000pX-5u for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:55:48 +0000 Message-ID: <4365F833.8010703@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:55:47 +0100 From: Xavier Neys User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051026) 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> <4364EC47.8050803@gentoo.org> <20051031095134.GD15744@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20051031095134.GD15744@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 206c851b-f797-4df9-888c-38f1de50f183 X-Archives-Hash: 53e77813c717049f16f669ea0858ad58 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:52:39PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >>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 there is no such system available yet. It is a single commit that gets > transferred to the web site, no moderation possible. > > Doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done though. > > Wkr, > Sven Vermeulen > > PS. If you want something posted in the current system, ping infra or mail > www@gentoo.org or pr@gentoo.org with the news item and it should get posted. > I know, not the best track, but that's the current system. Considering the number of hits on www.g.o, our front page is probably the best place for a single point of information. Top-5 hits for October 2005: /rdf/en/gentoo-news.rdf 1,319,035 / 1,168,361 /doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml 549,658 /rdf/en/glsa-index.rdf 528,659 /doc/en/index.xml 428,579 Should critical updates be announced in a news item? IMHO, yes, it can and it should be done. How? Maybe it would be easier to have a bugzilla alias, have news items be posted to b.g.o and let an extended pr team review and publish (or discard). As long as the news item is properly written and posted early enough, I see no problem with that. Wkr, -- / Xavier Neys \_ Gentoo Documentation Project / French & Internationalisation Lead \ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en /\ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list