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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Since GNOME 3 is already in the |
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>>> tree, and the news file content is straightforward, I'd like to commit |
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>>> this in 24hrs if there are no problems. |
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>> If we're gong to go to all the trouble to create upgrade guides and |
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>> news/etc, wouldn't it make sense to send out the news item a few days |
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>> BEFORE making the change? |
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> That was indeed the intention, but there was a miscommunication. |
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On my part, it was a failure of imagination. I had always seen large |
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changes dumped in ~arch with no warning or documentation (even the |
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png15 upgrade didn't get a news item until libpng-1.5.x went stable), |
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and so unquestioningly came to assume that it's the way things are |
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done because that's the way things were always done. Then some hours |
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after gnome-3 was unmasked, I saw Nirbheek talking on IRC about making |
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a news item, and winced: of course! why didn't I think of that? As an |
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~arch user, I had not particularly enjoyed massive changes being |
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dumped on my head without warning, so now that I was a developer and |
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it was in my power to write news items, why didn't I think of writing |
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one before unmasking? |
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-Alexandre |