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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:42:34 -0700 |
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"Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > >>> that is used for announcing important package changes? The list |
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> > >>> could also be used for other announcements (not sure exactly |
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> > >>> what - events where Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other |
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> > >>> things). If people feel that using the same list for other |
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> > >>> announcements too would create too much traffic, consider |
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> > >>> creating multiple lists, which would allow people to subscribe |
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> > >>> 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. |
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> > >> We're still working out the policy. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Thanks, |
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> > >> Donnie |
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> > >> |
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> > > According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my |
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> > > impression from the name) that list appears to be for |
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> > > developer-targeted announcements. |
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> > > |
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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 |
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> > > that might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade |
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> > > - "you can't downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here; |
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> > > coreutils upgrade - "some locations have changed - run 'hash -r' |
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> > > to clear the cache"; etc.) and other user-targeted messages to be |
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> > > sent to a list. |
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> > > |
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> > > Allen |
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> > > |
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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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You missed bug 179064, still waiting for some reaction from the eselect |
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people (if there are any alive). |
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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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Probably because (released) portage versions didn't support it, and the |
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paludis implementation wasn't fully compliant with the GLEP as well. |
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Marius |
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