Just curious how other distros deliver important news to their users? On 10/30/05, Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. A couple > of things I'd like to bring out: > > 1) Currently, our gentoo.org front page is very, well, slim. Afaik, I only > see major site updates, mailing lists notices, gdp updates, and of course the > GWN. In a way I think we're underestimating our frontpage. When someone is > first introduced to gentoo, they are most likely directed immediately to the > frontpage, www.gentoo.org. If they notice things such as major updates and > what not, chances are they'll most likely keep viewing it throughout their > Gentoo usage (at least I'd hope). However, it becomes somewhat combersome to > check the page every now and then for some, which comes to the second point. > > 2) The front page also has a nice RSS feed. This can be utilized for people > that would rather have convient RSS feeds avaliable on demand. Considering > that rss readers are avaliable pretty much in every form nowdays, it would be > considered a good idea to update the front page more for this reason as well. > This would give users the chance to have news feed to them in a convient and > functional manner (after all, that is the point of RSS). Of course, maybe > people are more tune with email, which comes to point three. > > 3) I think it would be a good idea for gentoo-announce to also include front > page announcements. This would work well for people that are more email > oriented (they use email a lot for business) and would keep things > centralized for them. This would also be best promoted on the front page, > maybe stickied in some form or another. > > So in conclusion, front page should get more updates, which would propigate to > rss, and maybe link gentoo-announce to the front page as well. > > Chris White > > >
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