Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

[Stuart Herbert]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:58 +0100, Grobian wrote:
> A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN.

But *many* more don't.  That's what we learned from the Apache package
refresh, and what we've also learned from the PHP5 work.

> Works fine for me.

What works for you is irrelevant to this conversation.  

What matters is getting news out to 100% of our userbase - or as near to
that as possible.  Saying that it works for you, and so there isn't a
problem, isn't a useful contribution.

> The GLEP *is* targetted at a certain group of people

It is targeted at every single Gentoo user.  Without exception or
discrimination.

> What the GLEP does is twofold:
> 1. Suggest special (**important**) news items to be accepted within
>     Gentoo, and them being stored somewhere
> 2. Desparately push this news to users, because it seems that they don't
>     read information which is not available (yet! see 1).

The information was available via several sources, but this did not
reach a wide enough audience.  As a result, we're proposing a new
mechanism for delivering news - one that we believe will be much more
successful.

> So thank you for letting me realise that this GLEP should be splitted in
> two.

No thanks.  

Best regards,
Stu
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