On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:34:23 +0000 Lisa Seelye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which | requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant | news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a | relatively large amount of data along with the news. | | My second concern is the frequency that users sync. A stated concern | is getting news to users before it is too late. Is there any way to | gauge the number of unique users which sync on a regular basis? When | is "too late"? Is there an acceptable window for delivering news? | It is not uncommon for me to refrain from running emerge sync (or | even cvs up on the entire gentoo-x86 tree) for weeks or months on | machines I wish to keep somewhat static.
Well... If a user doesn't sync, they're not going to get hit by upgrade problems. So so long as news items are kept around for a "sufficiently long" period of time, there aren't going to be issues. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML, anti-newbie conspiracy) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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