-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:51 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >>Did you specifically ask them if it is because we have different news in >>different locations? Somehow I think you're obscuring some facts to >>make your own argument. > > > That seems an unpleasant accusation to make :( > > The answer is that I didn't ask them if it was because we have different > news in different locations. The question didn't occur to me. > > >>The only problem that we have now with our multiple mediums is that not >>all news is on all mediums. We should have the same information going >>to all of these and let the user choose which method they like for >>getting news. > > > The critical difference between improving our existing mediums, and the > emerge --news approach that I've proposed, is that emerge --news is the > only approach that actively pushes news out to *all* users, and puts it > in a place that is as guaranteed as anything else available to catch > their attention. > > All the other approaches rely on the user going somewhere to get news, > whether it's signing up to a mailing list, reading www.g.o, reading the > forums, or whatever. Inevitably, this is only going to reach a smaller > subsection of our user community. > > What I care about is that we've taken the right steps to put important > information in front of *all* of our users (and our devs!). Even > (especially?) the ones who are unable to keep up with the news as it is > currently delivered. > > Making sure our users are well-informed improves the level and quality > of service that we provide; it can only enhance our reputation; and it > should also cut down on the amount of developer time that goes into > post-upgrade support (leaving more time for package maintenance). >
One source: http://errata.gentoo.org/ Push that out to as many alternate sources as you like (RSS feeds, summaries in emerge --news, forums post, etc.), but make it known that the website is *the* source (your alternate sources should point back to it). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDarUL2QTTR4CNEQARAh0pAKCi7BJpBOkRRT4iiaXUjajwbrjseACfahPV R2MVvKhkLfnid1/ADRUZAxk= =Oou4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
