On Saturday 09 October 2010 22:05:17 you wrote:
> On 10/9/10 10:26 PM, JW wrote:


> > Significant new versions of major software componants (KDE, Gnome?) are
> > newsworthy. For example since the last time I checked it seems that KDE
> > has been upgraded to 4.4.1 (I don't remember what it was last time I
> > checked but it wasn't 4.4). As another pont, the packages page
> > says it's still KDE 4.2.1,

> Which "the packages page" are you referring to?  I can only edit files
> based on URLs. :-)

Navigate Home > Packages
URL: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/index.php?phpLang=en

> There is the "recent package updates" field, which normally gets updated
> with each CVS commit.  But it's perhaps not as prominent as it should be.

No, it's prominent but it's so technical looking it doesn't give the same end 
user impression as a human-written news item.

> The documentation system is a royal pain to make changes in, so when
> people get busy they often don't bother--you have to do it via CVS,
> which is often a nonstarter in some people's workplaces.

I'm totally sympathetic to the pain involved in doc/site updates.

> Since I'm going to have time on my hands for the foreseeable future, and
> just enough bandwidth to do CVS updates, I'll be doing an overhaul of
> the docs, and more frequent news updates will mostly likely be part of
> that.

Terrific! :-)

Thanks,

        JW


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