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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:22:38
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nU5YEqb0WvN_mSV68-JvU_s9vtcOFgpYZGwjPnNqDYaA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns by William Hubbs
1 On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > When should ewarns vs news items be used to inform users about changes?
4 > I'm not asking for a policy, just thoughts about when one or the other
5 > should be used.
6 >
7
8 IMHO it is almost pointless to issue news this far after the event.
9 Just about anybody impacted will have already broken their systems and
10 fixed them by now.
11
12 The big advantage of news is that you can issue it a few days BEFORE
13 releasing the change.
14
15 --
16 Rich

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: news items vs ewarns Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>