On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >>> Since GNOME 3 is already in the >>> tree, and the news file content is straightforward, I'd like to commit >>> this in 24hrs if there are no problems. >> >> If we're gong to go to all the trouble to create upgrade guides and >> news/etc, wouldn't it make sense to send out the news item a few days >> BEFORE making the change? >> > > That was indeed the intention, but there was a miscommunication.
On my part, it was a failure of imagination. I had always seen large changes dumped in ~arch with no warning or documentation (even the png15 upgrade didn't get a news item until libpng-1.5.x went stable), and so unquestioningly came to assume that it's the way things are done because that's the way things were always done. Then some hours after gnome-3 was unmasked, I saw Nirbheek talking on IRC about making a news item, and winced: of course! why didn't I think of that? As an ~arch user, I had not particularly enjoyed massive changes being dumped on my head without warning, so now that I was a developer and it was in my power to write news items, why didn't I think of writing one before unmasking? -Alexandre
