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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: glep@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:37:51
Message-Id: 1131190463.13050.29.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:58 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Feedback from people who have something useful to say would be very much
3 > welcomed, assuming of course that they've read the GLEP.
4
5
6 It is written in the GLEP (Requirements):
7
8 No user monitoring required
9 It has already been demonstrated [#forums-whining]_ that many users
10 do not read news items posted to the Gentoo website, or do not read news
11 items until it is too late. A solution that relies upon active
12 monitoring of a particular source has no advantage over current methods.
13
14 And later in Specification->Overview:
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16 5. Users fetch the news item when they sync. This ensures that the news
17 items in question are pushed to the user before the user accidentally
18 makes an unwanted change. No changes to the existing rsync process are
19 required by this GLEP.
20
21 My concerns are twofold:
22
23 The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which
24 requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant
25 news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a
26 relatively large amount of data along with the news.
27
28 My second concern is the frequency that users sync. A stated concern is
29 getting news to users before it is too late. Is there any way to gauge
30 the number of unique users which sync on a regular basis? When is "too
31 late"? Is there an acceptable window for delivering news? It is not
32 uncommon for me to refrain from running emerge sync (or even cvs up on
33 the entire gentoo-x86 tree) for weeks or months on machines I wish to
34 keep somewhat static.
35
36 --
37 Regards,
38 Lisa Seelye
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40 http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site

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