Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:15:55 +0200 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How does it matter exactly whether it's paludis users, gcc users, php >> users, apache users or whoever else who will use the news item? Let's >> not misuse news framework for stuff that > > Er, that's one of the main points of GLEP 42's design: it allows > delivery of news items that are important to a subset of users only to > that subset. The size of the subset is entirely irrelevant.
That's not what I've been pointing out at all, you've completely snipped the important part about *unintended* use of this feature. So, once again - this is not an elog replacement and is not intended for trivial stuff (see the 'critical news' in GLEP42 title). >> For this particular case, you can (and do even) advise specifically >> the affected users only on runtime that the config files syntax has >> been changed. (Frankly, you don't even need elog stuff for similar >> things; everyone concerned will get the message paludis spits on the >> screen when they try to use it). > > Experience and user feedback has shown that in situations like this > users want an accompanying news item even if the application does output > deprecation warnings. Well again, what kind of experience? You cannot just carry over an existing practice of heavily abusing such stuff in a particular overlay with a couple of ebuilds and implant it into a tree with thousands of packages - it will produce loads of annoying noise and the feature will become useless if every maintainer starts to use news framework in a similar way. -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)
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