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On Sat, 5 May 2007 00:17:46 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500 |
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> Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o> wrote: |
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> > otherwise, yeah, elog does the same thing already... |
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> Experience has shown that news items work in delivering this kind of |
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> information to users whereas elog doesn't. elog is a one-shot thing |
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> that may or may not (usually the latter) actually get seen, whereas a |
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> news item stays around until the user reads it. |
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What experience? So far there have been no news items. The issue |
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about elog messages being one shot things is rather outdated (at least |
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for portage), and post-merge information is the domain of elog (as |
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stated in the GLEP). |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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