On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:22:31PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > When should ewarns vs news items be used to inform users about changes? > > I'm not asking for a policy, just thoughts about when one or the other > > should be used. > > > > IMHO it is almost pointless to issue news this far after the event. > Just about anybody impacted will have already broken their systems and > fixed them by now.
That's what I would have thought too, but I was specifically asked to put together a news item by another qa member; the bug was escalated by the reporter, and I didn't have time to do it the day I was asked. > The big advantage of news is that you can issue it a few days BEFORE > releasing the change. I guess I'm trying to figure out an idea of what kinds of changes should be announced beforehand. According to some, my change should have been anounced beforehand, but I guess I thought that users are supposed to read their ewarns and they would catch this. William
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