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On 05-01-2006 17:00:15 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> So - as GWN monkey - I'm offering my services as aggregator for project |
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> updates. Maybe someone from the doc project wants to help to get this |
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> information put on the website so that it's visible? |
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The following crossed my mind: what about a Developers release of the |
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GWN? I see you guys scouring the planet, MLs and whatever more, but not |
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all information there is user-friendly, or just a 'good idea' to tell |
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the users about. I'd really like to see an aggregation of stuff from |
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all kinds of sources (perhaps even including CVS/SVN commit messages) |
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put into a monthly (or bi-weekly?) message sent to -dev for instance. |
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It should just have some headliners for each project team, such that |
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those who want be a bit aware of what happens in the whole of gentoo can |
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read it, and take an active role when interested in some more |
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information. |
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I'm thinking of quite dull news, so absolutely not meant to be a |
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publication like GWN, but just thingis like some commits on the portage |
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sources that say to fix/implement X, a discussion on project ML Y |
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working on Z. Also for instance that Flameeyes has been working on |
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something with "--as-needed"; just what it is, and why, from planet. |
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Perhaps even a short note that after +-150 commits the tree has been |
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upgraded to XOrg-7_rc1 or something... that can be useful information, |
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even though it does look like spam. |
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This kind of information is all of the type background noise, hence it |
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dull, but can be very important for those that are open to it. |
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I would just be interested in such a thing, because I'd like to read |
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some few lines per month on projects, but not whole MLs and every dev's |
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Blog. Of course it's just shifting the problem of not wanting to read |
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everything to someone else... but IMHO it does improve communication for |
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those open to read the "Gentoo Developer Notes" (or something like |
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that). |
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Just a thought. No idea whether you really meant to do something like |
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this. Would like you to do it though ;) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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