-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
Believe me, it's really not a "rolls". We must find a way to provide those features. Maybe you don't see yet how it will affect/improve the end-user experience with SUSE Linux, but it's one of the major issues. I see, but I never make an assumption like "we must" when speaking of others work :-(
- From my experience as a packager, I think I can say that ;)) ...
a year ago or so I was subscribed to a newsletter from a freshmeat clone (icewalker or so) and received a notice for all packages submitted this day. One notice a day. I stopped receiving this because a mail failure and neglected to resubscribe. I know fresmeat makes something similar.
Indeed, freshmeat.net has such information. It's very short and consise, e.g. http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptraf/?branch_id=4549&release_id=207199 "This release includes major changes to the filtering system, including recognition of CIDR notation, additional protocol recognition, and automatic protocol name lookup. Interface support has also been expanded." The good thing with freshmeat.net is that the information is available in a machine-readable format: http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/iptraf/iptraf.xml?branch_id=4549 Unfortunately, that "change" information does not seem to be included.
I read some hardware magazines. For each new product, they enphasise on what is new, what is good. It's something like this we need. not too big, for nobody will read it, made by real users, able to say what is really usefull in all the new stuff. more a news paper than a true log. ... _this_ is a hole different thing from what I asks for. I want to know "what is worth going from Gimp 1 to Gimp 2" right now I see only problems (different menus layout), because I only try to use the same fonctions again and again, may be missing the real point. (this is only an example, don't answer the question :-)
Ok, now I see what you mean. Would rather be some kind of "openSUSE newsletter", something similar to what Georg Greve does with his "brave GNU world": http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-59.en.html but about new packages on SUSE Linux, of course. Would be interesting as a monthly newsletter, written by various members of the openSUSE community, where anyone could take some time an submit an article like "hey, I found this interesting package" or "what's new in ...". Good idea indeed, but we'd need a lot of committed people to do something like that on a regular basis. As always, it's up to having committed people ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLrpur3NMWliFcXcRAmjrAKCivpmlIL+uvDJNL2MeMEycwHklMQCePC3D yDtb0WdrYTCL26xSbwM7R2o= =q/Br -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----