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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:17 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> Implementing --news will take time. |
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It'll take time to get a Portage release out which supports this |
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functionality, sure. Implementing the functionality wouldn't take very |
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long at all. |
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> Implementing more news on our site |
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> now takes little work and can be easily done. Outside of these two |
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> options, what is better? I'd say a constant reminder in the GWN would be |
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> helpful. |
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The original problem is that GWN, forums, planet.g.o, gentoo-dev - even |
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together, we've seen that they just don't reach enough of our user base. |
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Aren't we just going to reach the same people by putting more news in |
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the same old place? How is that going to reach the people we're not |
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reaching today? |
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> Maybe we could add a big news warning in the next minor portage |
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> update that when you tells you about the new news features (perhaps a |
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> big einfo after you upgrade. |
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The problems of einfo messages not reaching our users have been well |
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documented already :( |
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> I know thats not the best solution either, but I dont' foresee --news |
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> becoming a reality for a while. |
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Me neither :( But you know what? It could, if enough people understood |
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the need, and supported its introduction. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o |
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