Chris White wrote: > It has made somewhat painfully obvious as of late as to the lack of a > centralized source of updates for users. This has recently become true > moreso with the apache2 config file changes and the step to php5.
Random thoughts about this important subject... Yes, there is a need to push non-obvious upgrade information to our users, and no, we can't rely on the GWN alone to convey that "official" message. The reason why the front page and the gentoo-announce ML (the two official media for Gentoo -> users information) are under-used is that approximately 5% of the developers know how to post to them. We should probably make them more open (with a moderation system to check message), then they will be used more. But it's a good idea to have some kind of automatic replication of frontpage announcements to gentoo-announce and the forums, this will help getting important messages through. However, I'm not sure *all* frontpage contents should get replicated to gentoo-announce and the forums. GWN announcements for example do not need to appear elsewhere... -- Thierry Carrez (Koon) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list