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On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:19:53 -0400 |
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Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 06 May 2007 3:02:38 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 6 May 2007 14:53:22 -0400 |
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> > Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > One of the reasons GLEP 42 was necessary was because users |
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> > > > *don't* read things delivered by other methods. |
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> > > And they are magically going to read the news? |
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> Experience being two news items about one package. Expand this to a |
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> tree size, where the user has around 400-500 packages. If they get |
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> news about changes that will increase their experience for each one |
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> of these, they are looking at reading the New York Times of gentoo |
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> every day. It's not going to happen. |
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And, if that happens (which it won't), we'll have more experience and |
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we can evaluate future news items based upon that. A more realistic |
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view for your typical user is less than a news item per week. |
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> > Paludis users do not consider that news item trivial. |
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> If I was a paludis user I would considder this trivial. The same |
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> information is availible a) from the package itself. b) from the |
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> changelog, and c) it still works without the change! |
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But you aren't, and those who are disagree. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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