"Bryan �������������������������������" wrote:
Even if you don't realise that this will be a big help for many users or you just don't think those users deserver any help (not sure which one it is tbh) - you might at least consider the fact that only having to push news about major / critical changes in one place is going to make things a lot easier for devs.
Any help that you can give is great. I am not against the ideas in this GLEP. It's are good ideas. However, you cannot push something that is not there, and you cannot say you *have* to push it because other ways don't work -- ways which aren't yet explored. News items as described have never been published before, IMHO, and hence the effect of un-filtered, un-personalised publishing of these news items is *not* known. I would priorise on getting them published somehow, and in the meanwhile continue on this GLEP from another perspective: "personalising news messages based on the user's portage". Such GLEP can elaborate much more on support for mailing automatically to root or another user, pushing forcibly on the screen or reading via 'news-update', just to suit every installation/user scenario that we can dream up.
It also is in the two separate issues that you snipped from my previous mail.
I think we're not going to agree here, so to prevent any more lengthy discussions over gentoo-dev on this topic, you can contact me off-list.
-- Fabian Groffen Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
