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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:40 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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>>>Well, I think that if users knew that information would be on these |
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>>>places, they might actually check them. Currently, little to no |
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>>>information ever makes it to either of these locations, so users never |
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>>>bother to check them. If we were to change that, I'm sure users would |
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>>>eventually pick up on the fact. |
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>>I would agree with Chris here too. As long as we start using this |
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>>channel more and we get the word out, folks will start to be more |
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>>attentive to it. We can't satisfy every user out there and I think this |
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>>channel has a good chance of working. |
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> It would be great if emerge --news displayed the same news as www.g.o. |
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> I don't see www.g.o on its own solving the problem of getting news out |
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> to all our users. How are you going to tell them that www.g.o and |
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> gentoo-announce now carries much more news? Post the news on there, or |
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> in GWN, the forums, this mailing list, etc etc? Aren't those the very |
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> places where we've already learned that not enough of our users look? |
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> I started this discussion because I've experienced that the percentage |
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> of users who read our existing news outlets isn't high enough to reach |
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> many of them in the first place ;-) |
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Implementing --news will take time. Implementing more news on our site |
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now takes little work and can be easily done. Outside of these two |
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options, what is better? I'd say a constant reminder in the GWN would be |
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helpful. Maybe we could add a big news warning in the next minor portage |
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update that when you tells you about the new news features (perhaps a |
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big einfo after you upgrade. |
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I know thats not the best solution either, but I dont' foresee --news |
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becoming a reality for a while. |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager |
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