On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:46:01 +0100 Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > There are currently several ways of delivering important news items | > to our users, none of them particularly effective: | | I'd suggest changing this to something more constructive - calling our | current efforts "none of them particularly effective" isn't exactly | a constructive way of critizing things.
They're not particularly effective. If they were, there would be no need for this GLEP. | > A more reliable way of getting news of critical updates out to | > users is required to avoid repeats of the various recent upgrade | > debacles. | | As it was mentioned above, gcc 3.4 went pretty well on x86, can't | comment on mysql as i don't use it myself. I didn't say anywhere that the gcc 3.4 upgrade was a debacle. | I'd suggest changing this | text for something more diplomatic as i don't see much sense in having | council approved GLEPs talking about council approved upgrade | debacles. What, we're not allowed to admit that not everything we do works? | > .. Important:: This GLEP does not seek to replace or modify | > ``einfo`` messages which are displayed post-install. That is a | > separate issue which is handled by ``elog`` [#bug-11359]_. | | Thanks for clearing this quite important point up. That was added after the GLEP was wildly misreported in GWN the last time around... | I'd suggest extending the process of creating a news item to also | create a text to be posted to www.gentoo.org, the | announce-mailinglist, the forums, RSS feeds, GWN, etc. Of course | depending on the importance it may be decided to e.g. not post it | on announce but only www.gentoo.org. | | Do you think this can be done within this GLEP or rather outside? That's beyond the scope of the GLEP. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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