On 24-07-2012 10:59:08 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > > I still don't see why you'd bother all existing users with that > > info. Just blog, or (better) write a nice email to -announce, and > > update the install docs. > > The point of "bugging" all users was to minimize the risk of a user > not being aware of the change. If the general consensus is that this > should not be sent as news item (GLEP42), I'll drop itl
I don't know about general consensus. In my opinion, it's plain spam to existing users. (And that would IMO be the xth news item in a row to be spam.) > > Also, can you exclude all Prefix profiles for this news item if > > you insist on pushing it out? > > I don't know the specific methods to filter news items, so if you or > others can help with that, I'd appreciate. > If anyone has particular suggestions about who should see this news > item, including the filter of how to achieve that, please let me know. You can limit news items to certain profiles, so, you could make them apply to the default/linux profiles, I guess. Not sure if the FreeBSD guys are affected by your catalyst change. If so, they might want to be included too. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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