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> After going through the list, I got the impression there is simply no |
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> place where such messages clearly would go. gentoo-announce sounds as |
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> the best option to go for, but its description somehow suggests not. |
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> Though, subscribed to gentoo-announce means you get nothing but GLSA |
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> announcements and sometimes a new release announcements. |
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> So, what list should the user that wants to receive those **important** |
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> messages sign up to? |
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> I still think that *this* is the reason why people don't seem to know |
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> about the important changes, because there is no obvious place where to |
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> get them. It's quite likely that a user that wanted to see the |
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> new-style apache message didn't see it because it simply didn't appear |
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> on a list the user hoped to see it. It was in the GWN of 2005-09-12, |
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> but I can imagine a user didn't expect it to be there, as there is no |
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> description at al for GWN list, and the **important** information will |
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> always have to be extracted from the GWN, since each GWN covers multiple |
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> items in a few categories which not every user might interest. |
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> Send **important** messages separate to a non-discussion mailing list, |
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> and I'm sure that many people will be happy to read it -- just like |
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> gentoo-announce. |
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Above and beyond Ciaran's point... |
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You are correct, there is no clear cut place for them to go...that's how |
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this thing got started in the first place. However why force users to |
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sign up for something which can't be appropriately filtered (installed |
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packages, keywords, use flags, profiles, etc.) when all of them are |
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already "signed up" for something that can track and filter, portage. |
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I wouldn't necessarily bother signing up for an errata list if said list |
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was going to provide me with *all* the errata out there. The reason that |
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a mailing list works for RedHat is because RHN tracks what packages you |
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have installed on your system on *their* server (again something you |
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have to sign up for, and worse send them info about your configuration), |
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so the filtering is done for you. We will *never* do something like |
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this, we have a client side tool that can identify what is installed |
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already...why not use it? |
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Daniel Ostrow |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} |
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dostrow@g.o |
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