On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:58 +0100, Grobian wrote: > A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN.
But *many* more don't. That's what we learned from the Apache package refresh, and what we've also learned from the PHP5 work. > Works fine for me. What works for you is irrelevant to this conversation. What matters is getting news out to 100% of our userbase - or as near to that as possible. Saying that it works for you, and so there isn't a problem, isn't a useful contribution. > The GLEP *is* targetted at a certain group of people It is targeted at every single Gentoo user. Without exception or discrimination. > What the GLEP does is twofold: > 1. Suggest special (**important**) news items to be accepted within > Gentoo, and them being stored somewhere > 2. Desparately push this news to users, because it seems that they don't > read information which is not available (yet! see 1). The information was available via several sources, but this did not reach a wide enough audience. As a result, we're proposing a new mechanism for delivering news - one that we believe will be much more successful. > So thank you for letting me realise that this GLEP should be splitted in > two. No thanks. Best regards, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C --
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