Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 (news) Round Seven

[Ian Kester-Haney]

On 1/8/06, Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:18:20PM +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> > Duncan wrote:
> > > Because that code will be implemented in portage, and the portage dev
> > > likely to implement it said it was a superfluous reference. =8^)
> > >
> > > Still, I'd prefer it referenced just for definition's sake, but when
> the
> > > portage dev says it isn't a superfluous reference, and
> that  particular
> > > section is specifying portage implementation...
> >
> > Nope, that particular section is specifying methods of interaction
> > between Portage and user.
>
> It's not an issue.
>
> So... no complaints, this means this *is* on the schedule for council,
> yes?
> ~harring
>
>
> What happened to the central repository, I think that a central repository
for upcoming events critical to gentoo usage ought to be centrally
available.  The GWN hasn't been up yet and I olnly read about the apache
upgrade in 2 of them.  This GLEP makes sense as a LAST RESORT, I would
rathwer have one updatesd website in my rotation to get news of version and
package revisions that require configuration changes.  How this is set-up is
up to infra, IMHO the home page stinks at getting information out for new
users eager to get into the nitty gritty.  The Doc project home page doesn't
get updated very often as I can tell and the projects page doesn't even have
PHP or amd64 listed.  There ought to be a "main" package category listing on
a news page somewhere that ids upcoming changes and general goals around the
packagin and configuration as needed to help alert users ahead of time.
Frankly, if I was a server administrator, I would rather be forced to
install the newer apache specifiaclly in a SLOT and get updates to the old
style.  Telling me at the point of pre-installation only makes my job
harder.