Re: [gentoo-dev] Using gentoo-announce for more routine decision/ebuild announcements

[Mikael Hallendal]

sön 2001-10-28 klockan 17.24 skrev Dan Armak:
> Hi all,

Hi!

Sorry for the late response, I've been really busy at work so I've been
lagging on my Gentoo-email reading, trying to fix that now :)
 
> The gentoo-announce list currently gets a message in a month or two. IMHO
> it's not very useful that way. Why not open it for all developers to send
> announcements of medium and high importance?

I think this is a good idea.

> This can include various decisions - unified ebuild style, install -> /usr,
> etc. and announcements of important/interesting new ebuilds and major new
> versions of existing ones.

However I don't agree with you here. IMHO gentoo-announce should be for
_users_, Gentoo-dev is for posting such things as "unified ebuild
style".

install -> /usr should defenatly be at gentoo-announce.
 
> I for one am tired of reading the cvs logs, and as Azarah says, most of us
> aren't on IRC 24/7 and can't follow all the discussions that take place.

Hmm .. I think that all developers should read the cvs logs, it takes
about 2 minutes each day to read. I you haven't subscribe to the
cvs-list and you'll get a mail with all changes every day.
 
> In my view the optimal volume would be around 1 message per day, sometimes 2,
> with the messages being short and succint and any discussions taking place on
> a different list (gentoo-dev, -user, or the team lists).

I'd think that 1 mail/day to gentoo-announce would be far to much. This
should be a list for people interested in gentoo or users that don't
want to follow the discussions, just the decissions.

> What do you think?

I would very much like to see this happend.
 
Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden