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Benjamin Reed wrote:
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I think the issue is a combination of a couple of things.yes, that seems reasonable indeed. Something like a sticky news item that stays on top until the issue has been resolved.
1. If there's news like "WATCH OUT FOR VIREX! IT WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM!", it shouldn't get rolled off because of a news item asking for more mirrors.
2. I think a number of us are uncomfortable with the informal nature of some of the recent news stories (I know I was, but not so much I would make a big deal out of it. But, since the topic is up, I'll say something now =). While it's reasonable for any of us to talk that way in e-mail, it seems rather strange to give that kind of voice to the Fink project as a whole.
Could you expand on this? Because I am very welly aware that I am keeping my news items as inofficial as possible. There is a very distinct psyhcological effect behind it and I am doing it on purpose. I am more than willing to expand on it if that is necessary. The main idea is, that we are no highly official project with a user base that pertains to the broad public. We have a highly specialised environment and user base and I want to make them feel "at home", part of a team or family and that is easily established by keeping things down to a monimum when it comes to formal things. All our "real" announcements are _very_ formal and I strict about it to see that it keeps that way. But when I announce "on the news site" that gnome is in unstable, there does not seem to eb a need for that when the announcement itself is held as it should be held because it goes out tot he media,
I disagree. The other way round seems to be the more logical one.
In the future I think it would be better to post the informal form to fink-announce (since announcements still come from "Benjamin Reed" or "Darian Lanx" and not "fink.sourceforge.net"), and have a more formal no-nonsense version on the main site.
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