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From: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:52:13
Message-Id: 20080322195458.2af6a5b9@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release by Ben de Groot
1 Hi,
2
3 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>:
4
5 > I thought we had learnt something about not communicating with our
6 > userbase, but it looks like this lesson has already been forgotten.
7 > While I appreciate there probably are valid reasons for the delay of
8 > the beta and the release of 2008.0, I don't think there is any excuse
9 > not to update the published release schedule, nor for the utter lack
10 > of communication about this issue with our users. A short message on
11 > the frontpage of www.gentoo.org with a new (even if tentative) ETA,
12 > and some kind of explanation for the delay would certainly be much
13 > appreciated.
14
15 Yes please, people are asking a lot on the forums, so a news item
16 would be nice. I contributed a rough draft but I have not enough
17 insight into the reasoning to make it something proper...a "2008.0 will
18 be delayed but we are still working on it" would be sufficient in my
19 eyes.
20
21 V-Li
22
23 --
24 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
25 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
26
27 <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>

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