Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

["Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@ieee.org>]

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Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:51 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 
>>Did you specifically ask them if it is because we have different news in
>>different locations?  Somehow I think you're obscuring some facts to
>>make your own argument.
> 
> 
> That seems an unpleasant accusation to make :(
> 
> The answer is that I didn't ask them if it was because we have different
> news in different locations.  The question didn't occur to me.
> 
> 
>>The only problem that we have now with our multiple mediums is that not
>>all news is on all mediums.  We should have the same information going
>>to all of these and let the user choose which method they like for
>>getting news.
> 
> 
> The critical difference between improving our existing mediums, and the
> emerge --news approach that I've proposed, is that emerge --news is the
> only approach that actively pushes news out to *all* users, and puts it
> in a place that is as guaranteed as anything else available to catch
> their attention.
> 
> All the other approaches rely on the user going somewhere to get news,
> whether it's signing up to a mailing list, reading www.g.o, reading the
> forums, or whatever.  Inevitably, this is only going to reach a smaller
> subsection of our user community.
> 
> What I care about is that we've taken the right steps to put important
> information in front of *all* of our users (and our devs!).  Even
> (especially?) the ones who are unable to keep up with the news as it is
> currently delivered.
> 
> Making sure our users are well-informed improves the level and quality
> of service that we provide; it can only enhance our reputation; and it
> should also cut down on the amount of developer time that goes into
> post-upgrade support (leaving more time for package maintenance).
> 

One source: http://errata.gentoo.org/

Push that out to as many alternate sources as you like (RSS feeds,
summaries in emerge --news, forums post, etc.), but make it known that
the website is *the* source (your alternate sources should point back to
it).
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