Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-11-10 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi, On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 15:25 +0100, Xavier Neys wrote: > FYI, 81,054 different IPs have hit our front page or the news feed in just 5 > days What happened to my earlier request about visitor numbers? Have you done any clickstream analysis to work out why these people are visiting the site?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-11-04 Thread Xavier Neys
Duncan wrote: Number of users subscribed to gentoo-announce: 7,988 Total number of GETs on our home page and news feed in a *single day*: 75,302 from 19,240 different IPs (on Sunday 2005-10-30). I read announce very regularly (checking it several times a day, most days), but wouldn't show up i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-11-03 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Stuart Herbert posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:05:33 +: > >>The original problem is that GWN, forums, planet.g.o, gentoo-dev - even >>together, we've seen that they just don't reach enough of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
Stuart Herbert posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:05:33 +: > The original problem is that GWN, forums, planet.g.o, gentoo-dev - even > together, we've seen that they just don't reach enough of our user base. > Aren't we just going to reach the same people by p

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
Stuart Herbert posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:56:19 +: >> Reading gentoo-announce should be mandatory. > > I think that statement ignores a basic human truth - that not every user > likes using mailing lists. Just like not every user likes using forums.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
Xavier Neys posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:55:40 +0100: > Number of users subscribed to gentoo-announce: 7,988 > Total number of GETs on our home page and news feed in a *single day*: 75,302 > from 19,240 different IPs (on Sunday 2005-10-30). I read announce

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
Xavier Neys posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:55:47 +0100: > Maybe it would be easier to have a bugzilla alias, have news items be > posted to b.g.o and let an extended pr team review and publish (or > discard). As long as the news item is properly written and po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-30 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: | But there's already a GWN list, which I assume those that want have signed | up for. Putting them on the announce list as well would therefore be | little more than noise. That doesn't hold for the other announcements on | the front

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-30 Thread Duncan
Donnie Berkholz posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:03:55 -0800: > Thierry Carrez wrote: > | But it's a good idea to have some kind of automatic replication of > | frontpage announcements to gentoo-announce and the forums, this will > | help getting important messa