-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-05-27 22:37, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
Only one way, more communication about it. Was on opensuse-security, on -project, on lizards, but seems insufficient.
And I dropped the ball on getting an article written up on news.o.o which would have propogated over to Forums. Mea culpa!
But that doesn't solve the problem completely, because there are users for sure who do not follow the news of openSUSE in any of its various forms. I was a user of openSUSE for several years before I even began to get involved in the community and read the news about openSUSE stuff. So, any news article will not reach all users.
Exactly.
The idea of a warning system of some kind as the current version nears EOL is an interesting idea, but there's going to have to be a way to do it without freaking out a user who panics at the sight of any warning or suspects this must be malware (on Windows, this is the kind of warning that malware thrives on.)
They are already freaking when package kit complains several times per hour with a popup complaining that it con not reach a repository. If we know that local email to root works on all systems, that would be enough. But to all users, perhaps. Ahhh! My system is spamming me! :-P
The warning method would have to be "disable-able" too for administrators if openSUSE is deployed in large environments or support staff will get inundated with needless calls from panicked workers when they already know and have a plan for migration. :-)
Yes, absolutely. And it should mention how to disable the package kit applet and where to get further info, like an EOL link that is created at the appropriate time with info on how to upgrade, where to get help, etc. The packagekit applet that is already pesking us could do this job. It could trigger on a date, then check for existence of the EOL link at opensuse.org, then not check for repos, or do and do not complain, and post the info to the user, who then can click on R&U, go away. If that is not possible, a weekly cron job, a script. Thus easy to disable. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3gPC4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WaSwCbBpqRAzjJaGpjnqr6A5Lo1NTg 3NEAnjfKWJliEHbPl+R7Esq5na03U0Td =n4B8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org