[gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[George Prowse]

Well, i'm not sure if this list is working because I have not yet 
recieved any emails from it but...

What ideas do people have for improving relations?
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Re: [gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[lnxg33k]

George Prowse wrote:
> Well, i'm not sure if this list is working because I have not yet
> recieved any emails from it but...

It works, but no traffic to speak of yet.

> What ideas do people have for improving relations?

As for user's getting help, I've never had any problems between IRC, MLs,
bugzilla, and the forums. The problem is, not everyone knows how or wants to
experience all of those mediums.

As for actual dev/user communication, I find it rather difficult to discuss
topics with a developer due to protocol issues. For example, bugzilla is great
for getting involved in the gentoo project and getting direct feedback from a
dev. However, there is no real documentation giving background information on
how one should conduct themselves on bugzilla; therefore, I never feel overly
comfortable contributing there and feel a bit offset when a "WONTFIX" shows up
(getting over this as I have learned why/when this might be used). I know
others have felt the same way.

Forums take a while for people to get in the "proper" mindset and the same goes
for MLs although they are documented rather will (old netiquette articles). IRC
... is well, IRC and is another story all together. The point being, the
average user doesn't have good access to the devs simply due to their lack of
competency (I don't mean this in a negative way) for a specific communication
medium.

I don't know what all the above implies, but to say that I've never had a
significant issue getting help from a dev and that I'm not an average user.
There probably isn't anything the gentoo community can do other than be
tolerant of improper attempts at getting help and try to point them in the
right direction (which, I believe, happens already for the most part). Note
that asking for help is only a small part of communication and I can't speak
for that however I assume that the same would apply.

As for documentation regarding users joining the gentoo project beyond that of
a user role (ie: ATs, developers through quizes) ... the documentation could
use a lot of work with regards to clarity and organization. This isn't active
communication between a user and dev, but this information helps to inform
users of the process that goes on behind the curtain and therefore gives a
better understanding of how to conduct themselves and pose questions. This is a
bit beyond what was originally asked, but I think it's still an important
aspect of dev/user communication even if it is passive.

Hopefully the above was on topic and somewhat clear.
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[gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[George Prowse]

Ok, suggestion No1:

We put out messages in the communication channels (topics on irc, the 
forums, GWN, and any others we can think of) saying that we would like 
massive feedback from the users.

Once we get feedback then the individual pieces of info can be discussed 
and voted on in the channels.

I dont know how much info we'll get back but...

Also, a thought is a questionaire online saying "what would you like to 
see?" "what do you think should be changed?" etc

George
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Re: [gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:41:36 +0100, George Prowse wrote:

> We put out messages in the communication channels (topics on irc, the 
> forums, GWN, and any others we can think of) saying that we would like 
> massive feedback from the users.
> 
> Once we get feedback then the individual pieces of info can be
> discussed and voted on in the channels.
> 
> I dont know how much info we'll get back but...

Probably a lot, but how much of it will be useful or usable is an
entirely different question.

> Also, a thought is a questionaire online saying "what would you like to 
> see?" "what do you think should be changed?" etc

That makes more sense. A well considered survey, asking the right
questions and running for a few weeks, with announcements and reminders
about it in all the channels you mentioned, would be far more useful,
and much easier to process.

There's no need to restrict the announcement to Gentoo channels either,
the likes of Distrowatch and LWN could be used too.


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Re: [gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[George Prowse]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:41:36 +0100, George Prowse wrote:
> 
>> We put out messages in the communication channels (topics on irc, the 
>> forums, GWN, and any others we can think of) saying that we would like 
>> massive feedback from the users.
>>
>> Once we get feedback then the individual pieces of info can be
>> discussed and voted on in the channels.
>>
>> I dont know how much info we'll get back but...
> 
> Probably a lot, but how much of it will be useful or usable is an
> entirely different question.
> 
>> Also, a thought is a questionaire online saying "what would you like to 
>> see?" "what do you think should be changed?" etc
> 
> That makes more sense. A well considered survey, asking the right
> questions and running for a few weeks, with announcements and reminders
> about it in all the channels you mentioned, would be far more useful,
> and much easier to process.
> 
> There's no need to restrict the announcement to Gentoo channels either,
> the likes of Distrowatch and LWN could be used too.
> 
> 

I think I found the guide xml. Developers please say if i'm wrong

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xml-guide.xml
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Re: [gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[Marijn Schouten (hkBst)]

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George Prowse wrote:
> Well, i'm not sure if this list is working because I have not yet
> recieved any emails from it but...
> 
> What ideas do people have for improving relations?

I posted twice to the list already, but nobody seems to have received it and I
can't find it in the archive. Apologies to anyone receving this again.

first:

Robert Buchholz wrote:
> > On Thursday, 19. July 2007 22:39, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
>>> >>> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>>>> >>>> Associate an irc-channel with each package.
>> >> Associate how? Sounds like a lot of work at the least and a lot of
>> >> cruft at the worst.
> >
> > It could be included in the herds.xml:
> >
> > <herd>
> >   <name>kde</name>
> >   <email>kde@gentoo.org</email>
> >   <description>KDE and related packages</description>
> >   <irc>irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-kde</irc>
> >   <irc>irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-desktop</irc>
> >   <maintainer>
> >     <email>caleb@gentoo.org</email>
> >   </maintainer>
> >   ...
> > </herd>
> >
> > This way, it would not cruft any packages. Still for packages where a
> > certain group of people maintain, it would show where to find them and
> > other users.
> >
> > Where could it be displayed to users? I mean, herdstat of course, but
> > somehow the info would have to reach Joe User, too.

I was thinking of including it in the info that is spit out when you search
for a package, for example:

eix -e pidgin
* net-im/pidgin (#gentoo-pidgin, #gentoo-desktop)
     Available versions:  (~)2.0.0 (~)2.0.1 (~)2.0.2 {avahi bonjour cjk crypt
dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk krb4 meanwhile msn
ncurses networkmanager nls perl prediction qq sasl silc spell ssl
startup-notification tcl tk xscreensaver zephyr}
     Homepage:            http://pidgin.im/
     Description:         GTK Instant Messenger client

Marijn

second:

Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> > Robert Buchholz wrote:
>> >> Where could it be displayed to users? I mean, herdstat of course, but
>> >> somehow the info would have to reach Joe User, too.
> >
> > I was thinking of including it in the info that is spit out when you search
> > for a package, for example:
> >
> > eix -e pidgin
> > * net-im/pidgin (#gentoo-pidgin, #gentoo-desktop)
> >      Available versions:  (~)2.0.0 (~)2.0.1 (~)2.0.2 {avahi bonjour cjk crypt
> > dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk krb4 meanwhile msn
> > ncurses networkmanager nls perl prediction qq sasl silc spell ssl
> > startup-notification tcl tk xscreensaver zephyr}
> >      Homepage:            http://pidgin.im/
> >      Description:         GTK Instant Messenger client
> >
> > Marijn

Oh and in emerge failure messages:

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/ld.so]
Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/work/glibc-2.6/elf'
make[1]: *** [elf/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/work/glibc-2.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2
 *
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.6 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line 1647:   Called dyn_compile
 *   ebuild.sh, line 988:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
 *   ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
 *   glibc-2.6.ebuild, line 1168:   Called src_compile
 *   glibc-2.6.ebuild, line 1179:   Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile
 *   glibc-2.6.ebuild, line 275:   Called die
 *
 * make for x86 failed
 * Support in #gentoo-system or else #gentoo.
 * Complete build log: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/temp/build.log'.

with optional " or else #gentoo".

Marijn
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Re: [gentoo-project] Improving developer/user communication

[George Prowse]

Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
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> George Prowse wrote:
>> Well, i'm not sure if this list is working because I have not yet
>> recieved any emails from it but...
>>
>> What ideas do people have for improving relations?
> 
> I posted twice to the list already, but nobody seems to have received it and I
> can't find it in the archive. Apologies to anyone receving this again.
> 
> first:
> 
> Robert Buchholz wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 19. July 2007 22:39, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
>>>>>>> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Associate an irc-channel with each package.
>>>>> Associate how? Sounds like a lot of work at the least and a lot of
>>>>> cruft at the worst.
>>> It could be included in the herds.xml:
>>>
>>> <herd>
>>>   <name>kde</name>
>>>   <email>kde@gentoo.org</email>
>>>   <description>KDE and related packages</description>
>>>   <irc>irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-kde</irc>
>>>   <irc>irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-desktop</irc>
>>>   <maintainer>
>>>     <email>caleb@gentoo.org</email>
>>>   </maintainer>
>>>   ...
>>> </herd>
>>>
>>> This way, it would not cruft any packages. Still for packages where a
>>> certain group of people maintain, it would show where to find them and
>>> other users.
>>>
>>> Where could it be displayed to users? I mean, herdstat of course, but
>>> somehow the info would have to reach Joe User, too.
> 
> I was thinking of including it in the info that is spit out when you search
> for a package, for example:
> 
> eix -e pidgin
> * net-im/pidgin (#gentoo-pidgin, #gentoo-desktop)
>      Available versions:  (~)2.0.0 (~)2.0.1 (~)2.0.2 {avahi bonjour cjk crypt
> dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk krb4 meanwhile msn
> ncurses networkmanager nls perl prediction qq sasl silc spell ssl
> startup-notification tcl tk xscreensaver zephyr}
>      Homepage:            http://pidgin.im/
>      Description:         GTK Instant Messenger client
> 
> Marijn
> 
> second:
> 
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>>> Robert Buchholz wrote:
>>>>> Where could it be displayed to users? I mean, herdstat of course, but
>>>>> somehow the info would have to reach Joe User, too.
>>> I was thinking of including it in the info that is spit out when you search
>>> for a package, for example:
>>>
>>> eix -e pidgin
>>> * net-im/pidgin (#gentoo-pidgin, #gentoo-desktop)
>>>      Available versions:  (~)2.0.0 (~)2.0.1 (~)2.0.2 {avahi bonjour cjk crypt
>>> dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk krb4 meanwhile msn
>>> ncurses networkmanager nls perl prediction qq sasl silc spell ssl
>>> startup-notification tcl tk xscreensaver zephyr}
>>>      Homepage:            http://pidgin.im/
>>>      Description:         GTK Instant Messenger client
>>>
>>> Marijn
> 
> Oh and in emerge failure messages:
> 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: ***
> [/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/ld.so]
> Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/work/glibc-2.6/elf'
> make[1]: *** [elf/subdir_lib] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/work/glibc-2.6'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>  *
>  * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.6 failed.
>  * Call stack:
>  *   ebuild.sh, line 1647:   Called dyn_compile
>  *   ebuild.sh, line 988:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
>  *   ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
>  *   glibc-2.6.ebuild, line 1168:   Called src_compile
>  *   glibc-2.6.ebuild, line 1179:   Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile
>  *   glibc-2.6.ebuild, line 275:   Called die
>  *
>  * make for x86 failed
>  * Support in #gentoo-system or else #gentoo.
>  * Complete build log: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/temp/build.log'.
> 
> with optional " or else #gentoo".
> 
> Marijn
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I think that is a great idea, it would have the added effect of cutting
out some duplicated bug reports if people checked on #irc first.

>From a developer's side it may be a bit of a chore sometimes, especially
for those developers maintaining packages that are part of a herd that
they are not a member of.

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[Robert Buchholz]

Am 21.07.2007 um 08:41 schrieb George Prowse:
> Also, a thought is a questionaire online saying "what would you  
> like to see?" "what do you think should be changed?" etc

It should be made clear that this only makes sense for ideas of global
scale, say "I want Gentoo (as a distribution) to improve XYZ", as in  
[1].

Saying "Gentoo needs to contain package X" or "The default config of Y"
should really be discussed in the appropriate smaller groups.

-R.


[1] http://spyderous.livejournal.com/91151.html
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[lnxg33k]

Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>  * make for x86 failed
>  * Support in #gentoo-system or else #gentoo.
>  * Complete build log: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6/temp/build.log'.
> 
> with optional " or else #gentoo".

I think it's a good idea to prompt the user where to start looking, but I don't
think IRC is the first place -- it's fairly inaccessible for most. Mentioning
the forums, I'd think, would be more ideal. Chances are the user has browsed
internet before (possibly even forums) and already have a browser installed.
Most of the time they aren't the only ones with the problem and searching on
the error will produce results.

However, this may result in more duplicated threads. Not sure what "problems"
this may have regarding moderation and performance.
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[gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Allen Brooker]

George Prowse wrote:
> Well, i'm not sure if this list is working because I have not yet
> recieved any emails from it but...
>
> What ideas do people have for improving relations?

(Resend, apologies if this appears twice)

What about making more use of the announce list? At the moment it's only
ever used for GLSA's, which from talking to a few people at Gentoo UK
and on IRC, most seem to use the utilities for anyway.

Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is
used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be
used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where
Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that
using the same list for other announcements too would create too much
traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to
subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see.

These lists could be heavily advertised on the forums and in the Gentoo
Handbook.

To remark on this "we'll only get atypical users responding so we
shouldn't ask at all" view, that's just silly. In my view, open source
is about community, and if people don't speak up then that's just their
choice. Why should everyone suffer just because some people don't want
to interact?

Surely developers can weigh up the feedback they get and decide for
themselves what might be atypical and what might be useful? And I think
that if you do it right, word will spread and more people will respond
over time. Sure, you'll never get everyone, but that's life.

Have you considered that many users may currently believe that there
aren't any ways they can communicate with developers generally? Or even
if they do know about IRC and mailing lists, believe that the developers
don't want to hear what they have to say?

On that note, an idea to get more users involved: What about scheduled
developer chats with specific projects where users can openly ask
questions and developers can perhaps give updates on what they've been
up to recently? They don't have to be particularly frequent - once a
month rotating round different projects or something.

Another idea could be to create a specific "developer Q&A" forum where
developers can pose questions to the users and perhaps vice-versa too
(some sort of moderation system for questions from users might be
required, and yes it would require work, but doesn't anything that
involves interacting with users?)

AllenJB

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[Donnie Berkholz]

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Allen Brooker wrote:
> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is
> used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be
> used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where
> Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that
> using the same list for other announcements too would create too much
> traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to
> subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see.

Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce. We're
still working out the policy.

Thanks,
Donnie


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[Allen Brooker]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Allen Brooker wrote:
>> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is
>> used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be
>> used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where
>> Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that
>> using the same list for other announcements too would create too much
>> traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to
>> subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see.
> 
> Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce. We're
> still working out the policy.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donnie
> 
According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my impression
from the name) that list appears to be for developer-targeted announcements.

What I was thinking was something along the lines of some of the
post-install messages (not all of them, just the important ones that
might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade - "you can't
downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here; coreutils upgrade -
"some locations have changed - run 'hash -r' to clear the cache"; etc.)
and other user-targeted messages to be sent to a list.

Allen

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[Allen Brooker]

Allen Brooker wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Allen Brooker wrote:
>>> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is
>>> used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be
>>> used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where
>>> Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that
>>> using the same list for other announcements too would create too much
>>> traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to
>>> subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see.
>> Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce. We're
>> still working out the policy.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Donnie
>>
> According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my impression
> from the name) that list appears to be for developer-targeted announcements.
> 
> What I was thinking was something along the lines of some of the
> post-install messages (not all of them, just the important ones that
> might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade - "you can't
> downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here; coreutils upgrade -
> "some locations have changed - run 'hash -r' to clear the cache"; etc.)
> and other user-targeted messages to be sent to a list.
> 
> Allen
> 
On a side note, I do know there's ELOG for some of what I'm talking
about, but as I see it the two problems with it are that:
1) Not everyone knows about it
2) You don't get the messages until after you've installed something. I
believe users should have warning of "major" upgrades before they
perform them.

Allen

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[gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Allen Brooker]

Allen Brooker wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Allen Brooker wrote:
>>> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is
>>> used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be
>>> used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where
>>> Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that
>>> using the same list for other announcements too would create too much
>>> traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to
>>> subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see.
>> Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce. We're
>> still working out the policy.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Donnie
>>
> According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my impression
> from the name) that list appears to be for developer-targeted announcements.
> 
> What I was thinking was something along the lines of some of the
> post-install messages (not all of them, just the important ones that
> might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade - "you can't
> downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here; coreutils upgrade -
> "some locations have changed - run 'hash -r' to clear the cache"; etc.)
> and other user-targeted messages to be sent to a list.
> 
> Allen
> 
I've also just been reminded about GLEP 42 [1] - What's the current
status and what are the hold-ups, if any? How can they be overcome?

Allen

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml

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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Alec Warner]

On 7/21/07, Allen Brooker <gmane@allenjb.me.uk> wrote:
> Allen Brooker wrote:
> > Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> >> Allen Brooker wrote:
> >>> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is
> >>> used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be
> >>> used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where
> >>> Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that
> >>> using the same list for other announcements too would create too much
> >>> traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to
> >>> subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see.
> >> Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce. We're
> >> still working out the policy.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Donnie
> >>
> > According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my impression
> > from the name) that list appears to be for developer-targeted announcements.
> >
> > What I was thinking was something along the lines of some of the
> > post-install messages (not all of them, just the important ones that
> > might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade - "you can't
> > downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here; coreutils upgrade -
> > "some locations have changed - run 'hash -r' to clear the cache"; etc.)
> > and other user-targeted messages to be sent to a list.
> >
> > Allen
> >
> I've also just been reminded about GLEP 42 [1] - What's the current
> status and what are the hold-ups, if any? How can they be overcome?

Afaik there is current no news reader for portage; but there is one
for paludis (eselect-news or something)

We have been syncing news items to you since spring, but no one has
used the functionality yet.

>
> Allen
>
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
>
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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Marius Mauch]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:42:34 -0700
"Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 7/21/07, Allen Brooker <gmane@allenjb.me.uk> wrote:
> > Allen Brooker wrote:
> > > Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > >> Allen Brooker wrote:
> > >>> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list
> > >>> that is used for announcing important package changes? The list
> > >>> could also be used for other announcements (not sure exactly
> > >>> what - events where Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other
> > >>> things). If people feel that using the same list for other
> > >>> announcements too would create too much traffic, consider
> > >>> creating multiple lists, which would allow people to subscribe
> > >>> to only the types of messages that they want to see.
> > >> Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce.
> > >> We're still working out the policy.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Donnie
> > >>
> > > According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my
> > > impression from the name) that list appears to be for
> > > developer-targeted announcements.
> > >
> > > What I was thinking was something along the lines of some of the
> > > post-install messages (not all of them, just the important ones
> > > that might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade
> > > - "you can't downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here;
> > > coreutils upgrade - "some locations have changed - run 'hash -r'
> > > to clear the cache"; etc.) and other user-targeted messages to be
> > > sent to a list.
> > >
> > > Allen
> > >
> > I've also just been reminded about GLEP 42 [1] - What's the current
> > status and what are the hold-ups, if any? How can they be overcome?
> 
> Afaik there is current no news reader for portage; but there is one
> for paludis (eselect-news or something)

You missed bug 179064, still waiting for some reaction from the eselect
people (if there are any alive).

> We have been syncing news items to you since spring, but no one has
> used the functionality yet.

Probably because (released) portage versions didn't support it, and the
paludis implementation wasn't fully compliant with the GLEP as well.

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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:40:49 +0200
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> You missed bug 179064, still waiting for some reaction from the
> eselect people (if there are any alive).

The eselect people aren't involved, since it's not being shipped as
part of eselect itself (the aim is to stop shipping modules with
eselect in favour of external packages where possible). The module
itself is in the tree and ready to be ported to Portage by anyone
interested (note that the earlier port is no good, since it lacks some
of the functionality of the version in the tree).

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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Marius Mauch]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:56:59 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:40:49 +0200
> Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > You missed bug 179064, still waiting for some reaction from the
> > eselect people (if there are any alive).
> 
> The eselect people aren't involved, since it's not being shipped as
> part of eselect itself (the aim is to stop shipping modules with
> eselect in favour of external packages where possible). The module
> itself is in the tree and ready to be ported to Portage by anyone
> interested (note that the earlier port is no good, since it lacks some
> of the functionality of the version in the tree).

I'd rather hear that from someone who's actually in charge of eselect.

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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:21:46 +0200
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:56:59 +0100
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> wrote:
> > The eselect people aren't involved, since it's not being shipped as
> > part of eselect itself (the aim is to stop shipping modules with
> > eselect in favour of external packages where possible). The module
> > itself is in the tree and ready to be ported to Portage by anyone
> > interested (note that the earlier port is no good, since it lacks
> > some of the functionality of the version in the tree).
> 
> I'd rather hear that from someone who's actually in charge of eselect.

Then you're out of luck, since he's busy with other things and is
probably going to be resigning soon. So you'll just have to settle for
hearing it from everyone who's discussed that kind of thing with him in
the past.

*shrug* Not that I care. I'm not being screwed over by you sitting
around waiting for an answer you probably won't ever get.

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