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 1EbRXw-0006ea-Qu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:46:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jADNjINE003543; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:45:18 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jADNhEND024999 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:43:15 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so910099wri for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:43:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=D436NRhQ2QXzxMa4iqrwy7NHh16xI+WcYeQp40WuELWlSzHz7PyHCKT8OWDpCQ3C+/4MZYgVfIOMyLnnQWrgl9PlMz3YKB5odtd0Uv9UUpRJ4ddkkH3S8Wpri1TBw/16DI4owC0hAA3Wgw9CYOYTBIP2lIW4NcU3Nfu3NRc+8bU= Received: by 10.54.99.2 with SMTP id w2mr3497080wrb; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.110.15 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:43:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10511131543u3588d36es70a1dddc561375d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:43:14 -0500 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two In-Reply-To: <1131921258.18102.18.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> <20051111184053.780ed8c9@sven.genone.homeip.net> <1131748635.8508.86.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <1131751347.25730.58.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1131757062.8508.119.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <1131809168.8774.10.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> <1131921258.18102.18.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jADNhEND024999 X-Archives-Salt: 3d16d929-6739-480b-a73a-028e621b478a X-Archives-Hash: a17bb92cd60731b7dbbc3081ae641a0e One usually adapts to unforseen problems, not ones that are known going into the project. Your suggestion is akin to buying a car that you know has bad tires, a bad alternator, a rusted body, and sundry other things wrong with it for full price, and just planning on fixing when it actually breaks. It costs a lot more that way. On 11/13/05, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:26 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > If users are interested in non-critical information, there's already a > > mechanism in place for them to get such things. They can join the > > mailing lists. Do we not already have a gentoo-events list? We also > > have a gentoo-releng list, or gentoo-announce. > > At this point, I think you're suggesting that we different news carried > by different mediums. If so, I think that's very different from the > proposal I'm putting forward. > > > > I'm not hoping for a 100% perfect technical solution straight away. > > > > I am. Anything less at this point is a half-assed design. The *design* > > should be 100% from the start. While implementation can occur in > > stages, you should not design as you go. > > I think that's a worthy goal, but looking around, it looks to me that > software design just doesn't work like that in real life. Designs have > to adapt and change as time passes, not just implementations. > > Best regards, > Stu > -- > Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.org > Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ > http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ > > GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu > Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C > -- > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDd79pDC+AuvmvxXwRAqJRAKCiGr6Vu9rarsmfhDJrB0R5Fl0nIwCfUrfK > lkPLVrFD0WhteHk/mcOKFtU= > =PjJ8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list