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Just curious how other distros deliver important news to their users? |
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On 10/30/05, Chris White <chriswhite@g.o> wrote: |
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> It has made somewhat painfully obvious as of late as to the lack of a |
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> centralized source of updates for users. This has recently become true |
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> moreso with the apache2 config file changes and the step to php5. A couple |
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> of things I'd like to bring out: |
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> 1) Currently, our gentoo.org front page is very, well, slim. Afaik, I only |
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> see major site updates, mailing lists notices, gdp updates, and of course the |
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> GWN. In a way I think we're underestimating our frontpage. When someone is |
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> first introduced to gentoo, they are most likely directed immediately to the |
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> frontpage, www.gentoo.org. If they notice things such as major updates and |
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> what not, chances are they'll most likely keep viewing it throughout their |
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> Gentoo usage (at least I'd hope). However, it becomes somewhat combersome to |
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> check the page every now and then for some, which comes to the second point. |
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> 2) The front page also has a nice RSS feed. This can be utilized for people |
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> that would rather have convient RSS feeds avaliable on demand. Considering |
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> that rss readers are avaliable pretty much in every form nowdays, it would be |
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> considered a good idea to update the front page more for this reason as well. |
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> This would give users the chance to have news feed to them in a convient and |
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> functional manner (after all, that is the point of RSS). Of course, maybe |
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> people are more tune with email, which comes to point three. |
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> 3) I think it would be a good idea for gentoo-announce to also include front |
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> page announcements. This would work well for people that are more email |
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> oriented (they use email a lot for business) and would keep things |
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> centralized for them. This would also be best promoted on the front page, |
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> maybe stickied in some form or another. |
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> So in conclusion, front page should get more updates, which would propigate to |
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> rss, and maybe link gentoo-announce to the front page as well. |
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> Chris White |
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