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Chris White wrote: |
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> It has made somewhat painfully obvious as of late as to the lack of a |
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> centralized source of updates for users. This has recently become true |
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> moreso with the apache2 config file changes and the step to php5. |
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Random thoughts about this important subject... |
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Yes, there is a need to push non-obvious upgrade information to our |
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users, and no, we can't rely on the GWN alone to convey that "official" |
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message. |
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The reason why the front page and the gentoo-announce ML (the two |
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official media for Gentoo -> users information) are under-used is that |
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approximately 5% of the developers know how to post to them. We should |
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probably make them more open (with a moderation system to check |
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message), then they will be used more. |
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But it's a good idea to have some kind of automatic replication of |
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frontpage announcements to gentoo-announce and the forums, this will |
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help getting important messages through. However, I'm not sure *all* |
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frontpage contents should get replicated to gentoo-announce and the |
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forums. GWN announcements for example do not need to appear elsewhere... |
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Thierry Carrez (Koon) |
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