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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 21:33 +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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>> Hence emerge --news. |
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> Why? |
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> There's no "emerge --etc" or "emerge --etc-update" functionality. Why |
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> must it be "emerge --news" at all? |
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# emerge --help config |
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probably an emerge --help news that explains the basics of the news |
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system and points the user to the default reader (whatever that becomes) |
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or even just tells them where to find the news files to read in their |
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editor of choice would be helpful. |
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>> We need to establish *one* authoritative source of news. We can't do |
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>> that if we simultaneously launch several sources of news all at once. |
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>> We have to launch *one* service first, give the userbase time to adjust |
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>> to that, and then start making the news available via additional |
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>> sources. |
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No! The other channels to deliver news to users are already in place. |
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Make them *all* the one authoritative source of news. If your goal is |
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100% coverage, then why proceed without a fallback? |
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> No, we really don't. Our users aren't idiots. They just aren't reading |
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> the information presented to them. While I agree that we need to have a |
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> single location for news, I also think that we must *require* this |
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> information be present in other locations. The main reason for this is |
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> that "emerge --news" is filtered based on the packages installed on the |
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> system. What about administrators that have lots of different systems? |
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> To them, it might be easier to receive all of the news, via |
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> gentoo-announce, and filter them via their own methods to determine what |
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> is important to them. Perhaps I want to search for an old news item. |
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> Why shouldn't I be able to go to a web site and enter my query in a |
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> search box and get all of the major news updates to dev-lang/php? |
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> If you want to reach 100% of the user base, then we should make this |
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> useful for as many situations as possible. I know that with the number |
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> of machines that I administer, it would be much easier for me to get |
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> *all* of the news in one place and determine what is valid for my |
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> machines, rather than having to read them on each individual machine |
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> based on the packages installed. |
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Seconded. ;) |
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--de. |
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