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On 7/21/07, Allen Brooker <gmane@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Allen Brooker wrote: |
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> > Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> >> Allen Brooker wrote: |
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> >>> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is |
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> >>> used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be |
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> >>> used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where |
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> >>> Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that |
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> >>> using the same list for other announcements too would create too much |
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> >>> traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to |
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> >>> subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see. |
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> >> Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce. We're |
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> >> still working out the policy. |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks, |
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> >> Donnie |
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> > According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my impression |
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> > from the name) that list appears to be for developer-targeted announcements. |
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> > What I was thinking was something along the lines of some of the |
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> > post-install messages (not all of them, just the important ones that |
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> > might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade - "you can't |
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> > downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here; coreutils upgrade - |
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> > "some locations have changed - run 'hash -r' to clear the cache"; etc.) |
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> > and other user-targeted messages to be sent to a list. |
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> > Allen |
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> I've also just been reminded about GLEP 42 [1] - What's the current |
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> status and what are the hold-ups, if any? How can they be overcome? |
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Afaik there is current no news reader for portage; but there is one |
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for paludis (eselect-news or something) |
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We have been syncing news items to you since spring, but no one has |
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used the functionality yet. |
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> Allen |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml |
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