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On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:34:23 +0000 Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o> wrote: |
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| The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which |
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| requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant |
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| news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a |
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| relatively large amount of data along with the news. |
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| My second concern is the frequency that users sync. A stated concern |
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| is getting news to users before it is too late. Is there any way to |
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| gauge the number of unique users which sync on a regular basis? When |
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| is "too late"? Is there an acceptable window for delivering news? |
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| It is not uncommon for me to refrain from running emerge sync (or |
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| even cvs up on the entire gentoo-x86 tree) for weeks or months on |
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| machines I wish to keep somewhat static. |
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Well... If a user doesn't sync, they're not going to get hit by upgrade |
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problems. So so long as news items are kept around for a "sufficiently |
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long" period of time, there aren't going to be issues. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML, anti-newbie conspiracy) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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