On 7 January 2015 at 09:47, Pete Travis <li...@petetravis.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 2015 7:23 AM, "drago01" <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Pete Travis <li...@petetravis.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 7, 2015 6:00 AM, "Richard Hughes" <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> I'm planning to delete > > >> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhughes/f20-gnome-3-12/ this > > >> week. The original description always had "This COPR will be updated > > >> until Fedora 21 has been released or until the entropy death of the > > >> universe, whichever happens first." so I don't altogether feel too > > >> guilty about abandoning it. Does anyone have any objections or wants > > >> to volunteer to take it over before I delete the repo? > > >> > > >> Richard > > >> -- > > > > > > While recognizing the massive maintenance burden of this COPR, I > suspect the > > > majority of objections will come from the enthusiast end user type - > you > > > know, the ones that are so eager to try the new thing they read about > that > > > they blow right past the description. > > > > Well one might think that those kind of users have updated to F21 to > > get the "new shiny stuff" anyway. > > -- > > The kind of users that are always driving for the latest shiny thing, > yes. The users that read about some shiny thing on the internet, were > interested, and plowed through the instructions without really > understanding the implications, no. I'm just suggesting a little courtesy > and further instruction for the latter. > > In any case, there *will* be some perplexed folks out there when it gets > turned off. I can share links when I see them if you like :) > > > We have all been on the Internet long enough to know that there is a segment of users who will complain even if they had been hand delivered notes that stuff was EOL. I think just doing what you originally suggested and mailing to announce and possibly Fedora Magazine will suffice. :) -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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