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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 4:19 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 23:03 +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote: |
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> > On 8/6/20 10:58 PM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> > > Well, the purpose of this is to educate and avoid problems for |
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> > > headless/server users. But if so many devs seem to care about pushing |
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> > > maybe unrelated information and believe that avoiding that has much more |
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> > > value than avoid a problem like an unbootable system for just a few |
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> > > people (and for headless/servers this is a major problem in case you |
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> > > cannot trigger remote reboot)... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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> > Yeah let's break some setups and make people change distributions instead. |
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> > I'd support showing it. Weren't we all taught that too much |
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> > communication is better than no communication? |
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> That's actually bullshit. Too much noise leads to people stopping to |
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> read stuff, and losing important info as a result. Compare: our mailing |
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> lists. |
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Well, we could solve that problem and the Foundation funding |
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challenges by switching the mailing list to a paid-superchat system. |
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The only thing that might bother some would be having to give me a |
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slot on the sponsor's page, but then again I would be paying your |
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salary at that point. :) |
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More seriously, I think the simplest compromise is to just display the |
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news item to those with the relevant genkernel versions installed. |
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While the general principle of using UUIDs and such in boot lines is |
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important, this is better placed in the handbook, wiki, and so on. |
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The news should focus on what is actually changing, IMO. |
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Rich |
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