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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 06:24:34PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> This is a followup on the gentoo-ebuild rhide thread, intented to be more |
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> visible than the original thread. |
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> The gentoo-announce list currently gets a message in a month or two. IMHO |
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> it's not very useful that way. Why not open it for all developers to send |
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> announcements of medium and high importance? |
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> This can include various decisions - unified ebuild style, install -> /usr, |
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> etc. and announcements of important/interesting new ebuilds and major new |
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> versions of existing ones. |
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> I for one am tired of reading the cvs logs, and as Azarah says, most of us |
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> aren't on IRC 24/7 and can't follow all the discussions that take place. |
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> If you think gentoo-announce is important and should stay as-is, we can |
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> create a new list for this. |
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> In my view the optimal volume would be around 1 message per day, sometimes 2, |
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> with the messages being short and succint and any discussions taking place on |
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> a different list (gentoo-dev, -user, or the team lists). |
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> What do you think? |
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Probably a good idea. gentoo-announce is being under-utilized. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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