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From: "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:10:36
Message-Id: 4366BF74.50008@ieee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users by Chris Gianelloni
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4 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 01:42 +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote:
6 >
7 >>There is *only one time* we can guarantee that we'll have a user's
8 >>attention. That's right after the message that tells a user how many
9 >>CONFIG_PROTECT files they need to fix by running etc-update.
10 >
11 >
12 > I definitely like the --news idea.
13 >
14 >
15 >>Some of those who hold the keys to those places have actively resisted
16 >>this in the past. Personally, I don't think the front page or
17 >>gentoo-announce will reach many more users than the Forums et al already
18 >>do.
19 >
20 >
21 > Well, I think that if users knew that information would be on these
22 > places, they might actually check them. Currently, little to no
23 > information ever makes it to either of these locations, so users never
24 > bother to check them. If we were to change that, I'm sure users would
25 > eventually pick up on the fact.
26 >
27
28 How about http://errata.gentoo.org/ for all technical announcements.
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