On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:32 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 8/24/05, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Since so much effort is going into > > actually building Fedora specific packages in Extras..I'd rather > > notify Fedora users of that first and foremost. > > And.. while I'm thinking about it.. there is a second-order effect PR > win here. An in-distro tool that users can use to watch "interesting" > additions to Extras gives an easy way for users to watch and be > excited about the growth of technology IN Fedora. Small reminders to > people..people like reviewers who sit and play with Fedora on their > workstation and desktop that this is an active, growing community of > contributors. +1 If we had a way to, even manually, parse fresh packages into finer grains than by comp group, we could have these emails list new packages by interest. Maybe not every interest would have something new this week, but perhaps there's links to all the not-new interests at the bottom. I think the flashy icon thing is annoying for me, but works for many. If that flashy icon was yum (up2date-panel-widget?) so you could grab the game immediately and, hey, why not get that kernel security update while you are at it. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
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