Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:43:48
Message-Id: 492A855B.5050101@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ? by Daniel Pielmeier
1 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
2 > 2008/11/24 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
3 >
4 >> Of course, there is the Gentoo monthly newsletter. Supposed to be
5 >> monthly anyway. I haven't seen one in a while so it may be going
6 >> quarterly this time. ;-)
7 >>
8 >> I do wish they had or would use a announce mailing list to inform people
9 >> of changes, big ones anyway, that are coming or in the process of
10 >> happening. At least that way we would know what is about to get borked
11 >> or worse and require some huge emerges to get back on track.
12 >>
13 >
14 > Well, this is probably another thing that has not reached the user
15 > base :-) The main author of the GWN sent a message to the
16 > gentoo-dev-announce mailing-list:
17 >
18 > Hi Folks,
19 >
20 > I've been extremely busy traveling & attending conferences for the
21 > last few weeks and will be required to continue the same for atleast 2
22 > weeks more; and nightmorph is just recovering from his failed
23 > hardware. As a result, there will be no October issue of the GMN. We
24 > hope to resume to normality by the end of November.
25 >
26 > Apologies.
27 >
28 >
29
30 I remember seeing that. Sounds like they need three people in the loop
31 instead of two. Bad things happen. About three weeks ago I was in the
32 hospital not sure I was going to live so I know first hand how downhill
33 things can go in a huge hurry.
34
35 Someone will come up with a plan at some point, I just hope it is sooner
36 rather than later.
37
38 Dale
39
40 :-) :-)