On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Fedora Com System ? (was: Package updating problem and >> solutions) >> From: Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: Development discussions related to Fedora >> <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: 12/12/2008 02:03 PM >> >>> >>> How are fedora-announce, the blogs and the webpages NOT this? >>> >> >> We need an applet that notifies users of announce e-mails or some form of >> libnotify box that says "hey stupid, read this Fedora news." New users >> typically care less about mailing lists, blogs, and webpages unless they are >> looking to set up new software like Samba sharing or have a bug like the >> PackageKit dependency. >> >> From my own experience, I could care less about visiting Fedora web sites >> daily. Should all end users pour hours of their lives into reading web pages >> and blogs daily? No, the process should be done for them. >> > > > okay, so as much as this makes me cringe I'll suggest something probably > crack filled: > > - additional metadata file of notices in repodata > - each notice has an id on it > - a yum plugin or pk or what not - records the notices you've seen > - as it finds new ones it emits them for you. > > that wouldn't really help us in the situation where an update broke the > update system, of course. I was thinking more of a human driven system. Example: 1) The recent email to the announce list would be "sent out" to all F10 users as a "critical alerting" instructing them accordingly. 2) Something takes down the build system, a "infrastructure alert: would go out letting everyone know that updates will be dead for x hours" 3) ... i think you get the drift -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
