On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 19:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > list the best thing we can do? Or is it just the best thing we can do > > right now given our current tools? Nothing's ever perfect but their > > maybe room to try something new with regard to communication > > mechanisms... if there are people willing to put the effort in to > > build it. > > Some suggestions: > > - An RSS feed for *important* announcements that is picked up by default > by the package updater or similar but can be unsubscribed from if users > want. > - Ability for yum to get an error message from a repository and report it. > - Sticking important stuff on the *front* of the fedora project web site. > > There is a different issue about what is said and leaving people in the > dark assuming the worst - a very bad way to create long term trust. Exactly what has happened right now. An obscure announcement, the infrastructure going down, no updates, just silence ... very poor management. Ralf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list