On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 18:43 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > I find this useless at this time because the work is in-progress, but in > order to silence the loud minority, > please review the news item. > > Thanks! > > - Samuli > >
I appreciate your work on this - and you may call them the loud minority - but this could definitely have been handled better. Instead of viewing their complaints as an annoyance, view it as a learning point to possibly realize that you're affecting a lot of desktops and people's updates are suddenly stopping. I realize that this was mentioned in the GWN, but not everyone subscribes to every possible news outlet for Gentoo even if they use Gentoo, and the only one that is "guaranteed" to get to them is a portage checkout, which is why news items are good, especially when something like this occurs. Instead of belittling the users because they are wasting so much of your time, try to empathize with them a bit and realize that they are running into an actual issue that could have been avoided easily with this news item. That said, the news item looks good to me, and yeah it may be a bit late now since this already happened.
