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On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:08:50 +0000 |
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"Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote: |
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> You're arguing this news item will only be shown to paludis users, but |
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> you're forgetting that paludis users also use many other packages in |
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> the tree. Assume user X has many packages on his system including |
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> package A. The maintainer of package A decides to create a news item |
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> about an upcoming change that will break package A. If user X on the |
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> next update of the tree gets 25 news items, with 15 of them about |
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> config file changes, the probability of the user disregarding package |
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> A's news item is far greater than if the user only gets 3 or 4 news |
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> items, wouldn't you agree? |
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You're looking at it the wrong way. |
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Assume the user gets 25 news items (which is wildly unlikely), 25 of |
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which contain useful information. Then the user is likely to pay |
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attention to all the news items. If, however, only 10 of them contain |
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useful information, they'll likely ignore them all in the future. |
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So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for |
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the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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