On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 10:06 +0100, Wernfried Haas wrote: > 4) Forums. We have the News and Announcements box on the forums and we > will set sticky threads upon request. In fact we even stick threads > and posts announcements if we encounter something worth mentioning > in our opinion. Since we may not notice everything feel free to > contact us in case you have some information worth sharing. > > Wrt to Chris' email i think the GWN is a good source of > information and currently seems to feature most important things. If > some people think that's not enough and someone steps up to do a RSS > feed, news on the Gentoo website or whatever, it would of course be a > good move, too. Setting up a centralized contact that forwards that > information to website, mailing lists, forums, GWN, etc could be useful.
Well, I don't know if this is really within scope, but we do have a PR team. I know that at one point they were pretty understaffed, so I don't know whether this would be something they would want to undertake or not, but if they did, then we already have everything in place. > The most important thing in my opinion would however be to release > important information more actively. If a problematic update is ahead, > information about it should go through all channels before users > experience problems. Since the maintainer knows best, he should be the > one contacting the others to release the information. Again, a > centralized contact would be helpful here since the maintainer does > not need to contact everyone and their mother then. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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