Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 10:06 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote:
> 4) Forums. We have the News and Announcements box on the forums and we
>    will set sticky threads upon request. In fact we even stick threads
>    and posts announcements if we encounter something worth mentioning
>    in our opinion. Since we may not notice everything feel free to
>    contact us in case you have some information worth sharing.
>
> Wrt to Chris' email i think the GWN is a good source of
> information and currently seems to feature most important things. If
> some people think that's not enough and someone steps up to do a RSS
> feed, news on the Gentoo website or whatever, it would of course be a
> good move, too. Setting up a centralized contact that forwards that
> information to website, mailing lists, forums, GWN, etc could be useful.

Well, I don't know if this is really within scope, but we do have a PR
team.  I know that at one point they were pretty understaffed, so I
don't know whether this would be something they would want to undertake
or not, but if they did, then we already have everything in place.

> The most important thing in my opinion would however be to release
> important information more actively. If a problematic update is ahead,
> information about it should go through all channels before users
> experience problems. Since the maintainer knows best, he should be the
> one contacting the others to release the information. Again, a
> centralized contact would be helpful here since the maintainer does
> not need to contact everyone and their mother then.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux