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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1ICKqj-0004Ru-Nl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:42:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6LJgdAp028653; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:42:39 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6LJgcL8028647 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:42:39 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so1391967wah for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.67.2 with SMTP id p2mr1627461waa.1185046954199; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:42:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.106.9 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:42:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:42:34 -0700 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: "Allen Brooker" Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <469FF6E3.70308@gmail.com> <46A233EE.7010208@gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: fc8254e37dc79d9a X-Archives-Salt: f29c1b40-8a30-4394-8e6e-369f80b17418 X-Archives-Hash: 5b12f69318736094025506db3c226a88 On 7/21/07, Allen Brooker 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 > > -- > gentoo-project@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-project@gentoo.org mailing list