[gentoo-project] Re: Improving developer/user communication

[Allen Brooker]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Allen Brooker wrote:
>> Could we create a very-low-traffic, developer-posts-only list that is
>> used for announcing important package changes? The list could also be
>> used for other announcements (not sure exactly what - events where
>> Gentoo devs will be, regional meets, other things). If people feel that
>> using the same list for other announcements too would create too much
>> traffic, consider creating multiple lists, which would allow people to
>> subscribe to only the types of messages that they want to see.
>
> Just made it at the same time as this one: gentoo-dev-announce. We're
> still working out the policy.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
According to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml (and my impression
from the name) that list appears to be for developer-targeted announcements.

What I was thinking was something along the lines of some of the
post-install messages (not all of them, just the important ones that
might actually (appear to) break things - eg. glibc upgrade - "you can't
downgrade"; gcc upgrade - "follow the guide here; coreutils upgrade -
"some locations have changed - run 'hash -r' to clear the cache"; etc.)
and other user-targeted messages to be sent to a list.

Allen

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