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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:29:28PM +0100, Grobian wrote: |
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> kloeri@g.o wrote: |
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> >You must not have read the [#forums-whining]_ reference as that makes it |
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> >quite clear that existing methods isn't adequate. Even if you think the |
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> >apache maintainers made lots of mistakes you can't really fault us for |
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> >not trying to get the news of config changes out to all users. |
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> I haven't, that's correct. However, a reference should be a source for |
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> additional information. A small exerpt or recap of that thread is not |
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> in the GLEP. Also, [#forums-whining]_ was not referenced in the quoted |
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> part, the reference only follows later on. |
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> Going into answering your question, the thread suggests for instance an |
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> RSS-feed with this info. Also the GLEP mentions 5 distinct sources, of |
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> which I personally think at least two will be effective for a certain |
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> group of people. |
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> That last thing was what I was aiming at. For some it might work quite |
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> well if the apache2 upgrade stuff (as sent out on gentoo-dev) was |
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> communicated through gentoo-announce. Hence my doubts on whether "[they |
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> are not] particularly effective" is a general statement that applies to |
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> any situation. |
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If we were only aiming at a certain group of people there would be no |
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need to change anything. The apache announcements reached lots of users |
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but still left a large chunk of users in the dark. Moving the news to |
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-announce or some RSS feed wouldn't change anything as the basic problem |
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with these methods is that people have to actively search out important |
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news instead of news getting pushed to them. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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