On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:47 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:49:41PM +0530, Steve Repo wrote: > > You cannot expect a non-tech enduser to be even aware such lists exist. I'd > > expect tech-savvy and administrators to subscribe to such lists. > > Personally, I'd ask said user for an e-mail address, then subscribe him > myself. But then again, I don't think users get to make decisions. > > > A message such as "There has been a problem with update service. Click here > > for detailed information (link to the website with the notice)" when yum > > update is performed is appropriate, > > I have no doubt that if you offer such a patch, and the infrastructure to > host such a service, it will receive all the consideration it deserves. > > Let's see... the service isn't working, nothing can be retrieved, but we're > somehow going to retrieve this pointer to the message describing the > failure to retrieve... You mean like the "This site is undergoing maintainance, please check back later" messages one sees from time to time. Gee, I wonder how they do that ... poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
