Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:17:14 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/share/sgml news.xml Message-ID: <20070626231714.GB1556@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20070626200957.GA1988@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <200706251147.l5PBl4Ib026722@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070626195936.GA976@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20070626200957.GA1988@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:09:57PM +0200, Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:59:37PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2007.06.25 11:47:03 +0000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > edwin 2007-06-25 11:47:03 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD doc repository (src,ports committer) > > > > > > Modified files: > > > share/sgml news.xml > > > Log: > > > Announce my src commit bit > > > > I raised this before, but do anyone really see any value in this kind > > of news entries? I mean, why would users care? It's marginally > > interesting for committers, but interested committers already read the > > access commits.. Recently (about a month ago), xorg 7.2 was imported in the ports framework. This was a very big change. Everybody was talking about it. On -ports, and a little bit on -questions. It didn't show up on the FreeBSD news column. And neither on the RSS feed. I doubt that anybody outside the -ports mailinglist knew about it, except when they were trying to upgrade a port and ran into strange error messages :-) After five days of waiting for somebody with authority (portmgr? flz@? A docs-commitor? Anybody but me who didn't even manage to get his machine up to date for a test run) to post it there, I realized it was never going to be posted on the frontpage and I submitted a news item. The fact that FreeBSD upgraded to Xorg 7.2 got its eyeballs, flz@ got his credits and people all over the world knew that FreeBSD wasn't dead yet. > > This is not specific to this particular commit, but all the upgrade > > privileges news entries. > > I concur. That's exactly the reason I didn't announce my src bit > addition back then. When I got the stock email from -core about my approval, it said "announce it". I thought "been there, done that.". I saw somebody else posting his upgrade, and thought "been there, will do it again.". Got some kuddos from old friends who don't use FreeBSD but saw my name on a website facilitating the FreeBSD RSS feed. The news items and RSS feed do work: We got eyeballs. I'll leave the descission about the policy with regarding to enhancement announces to others. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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