On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:04 +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 10:15 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > Is the annouce list the best thing we can do? > > > > Well, those who *want* to know these things, > "Wanting to know" isn't the problem. > > Communicating the appropriate pieces of information to the appropriate > audiences in appropriate time is the problem. > > E.g. "ordinary" users do not need to know if e.g. the buildsystem is > down, however they would have to know about which precautions to take to > protect their systems in case malicious/compromised packages should have > hit the repos and need to be informed when the "danger is over". > For such cases, sending emails to an announce list hardly is an > appropriate means, because one can't expect ordinary users to be > subscribed. You cannot expect a non-tech enduser to be even aware such lists exist. I'd expect tech-savvy and administrators to subscribe to such lists. A message such as "There has been a problem with update service. Click here for detailed information (link to the website with the notice)" when yum update is performed is appropriate, Steve
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