Fedora Com System ? (was: Package updating problem and solutions)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: Fedora Com System ? (was: Package updating problem and
>> solutions)
>> From: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
>> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
>> <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
>> 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.
>>
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>
> okay, so as much as this makes me cringe I'll suggest something probably
> crack filled:
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> - 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

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