Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:40 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > >>>Well, I think that if users knew that information would be on these >>>places, they might actually check them. Currently, little to no >>>information ever makes it to either of these locations, so users never >>>bother to check them. If we were to change that, I'm sure users would >>>eventually pick up on the fact. >> >>I would agree with Chris here too. As long as we start using this >>channel more and we get the word out, folks will start to be more >>attentive to it. We can't satisfy every user out there and I think this >>channel has a good chance of working. > > > It would be great if emerge --news displayed the same news as www.g.o. > > I don't see www.g.o on its own solving the problem of getting news out > to all our users. How are you going to tell them that www.g.o and > gentoo-announce now carries much more news? Post the news on there, or > in GWN, the forums, this mailing list, etc etc? Aren't those the very > places where we've already learned that not enough of our users look? > > I started this discussion because I've experienced that the percentage > of users who read our existing news outlets isn't high enough to reach > many of them in the first place ;-)
Implementing --news will take time. Implementing more news on our site now takes little work and can be easily done. Outside of these two options, what is better? I'd say a constant reminder in the GWN would be helpful. Maybe we could add a big news warning in the next minor portage update that when you tells you about the new news features (perhaps a big einfo after you upgrade. I know thats not the best solution either, but I dont' foresee --news becoming a reality for a while. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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