On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Ricardo Salveti
<ricardo.salv...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Christian Robottom Reis
> <k...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:55:26PM -0700, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
>>> Sorry to say that, but I hate these kind of emails at Linaro Dev, as I
>>> believe we have other places (and better ones) to report such issues.
>>> Twitter would probably be the way to go.
>>
>> Well, to be honest I don't really see the problem with letting the list
>> know that there are issues, and I interpret Zach's brevity as "we're
>> totally focused on getting the problem solved". I expect he's going to
>> come back and explain what's broken when the issue is resolved.
>
> Well, just saying it's broken doesn't help much either. If you really
> want a better and more up-to-date place to show this info even IRC
> would be better.
>
>> Is Twitter really that much better to inform us it's broken? I would
>> have missed the news entirely, for one random data point.
>
> Better than email at least :-) While it it's useful, did it actually
> help you in any front?
>
> Twitter is the general place used by most of projects for status
> update, that's why I thought that it'd be the best way to go.
>

I would have preferred to get a bit more context as well, but as kiko
said, getting an notification is definitely better than nothing.

Especially if you are in the mids of a firedrill you might not have
the time to explain the context, nor might you understand whats going
on at all etc.

-- 
Alexander Sack
Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams
http://www.linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

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