Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:46:01 +0100 Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o>
wrote:
| > There are currently several ways of delivering important news items
| > to our users, none of them particularly effective:
| 
| I'd suggest changing this to something more constructive - calling our
| current efforts "none of them particularly effective" isn't exactly
| a constructive way of critizing things.

They're not particularly effective. If they were, there would be no
need for this GLEP.

| > A more reliable way of getting news of critical updates out to
| > users is required to avoid repeats of the various recent upgrade
| > debacles. 
| 
| As it was mentioned above, gcc 3.4 went pretty well on x86, can't
| comment on mysql as i don't use it myself.

I didn't say anywhere that the gcc 3.4 upgrade was a debacle.

| I'd suggest changing this
| text for something more diplomatic as i don't see much sense in having
| council approved GLEPs talking about council approved upgrade
| debacles.

What, we're not allowed to admit that not everything we do works?

| > .. Important:: This GLEP does not seek to replace or modify
| > ``einfo`` messages which are displayed post-install. That is a
| > separate issue which is handled by ``elog`` [#bug-11359]_.
| 
| Thanks for clearing this quite important point up.

That was added after the GLEP was wildly misreported in GWN the last
time around...

| I'd suggest extending the process of creating a news item to also
| create a text to be posted to www.gentoo.org, the
| announce-mailinglist, the forums, RSS feeds, GWN, etc. Of course
| depending on the importance it may be decided to e.g. not post it 
| on announce but only www.gentoo.org.
| 
| Do you think this can be done within this GLEP or rather outside?

That's beyond the scope of the GLEP.

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