The updates firehose

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jun 11 05:09:35 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > Are you upset with the amount of bandwith we're eating or just based on
> > principal?
> 
> Somewhat on principal.  The amount of churn in Extras went somewhat unnoticed 
> to me because there wasn't something like bodhi for them.  Now that 
> everything goes through it it is very apparent that there is an enormous 
> amount of updates issued.

So, let's just stop sending mail. Problem solved!

(Seriously, I'm thinking that e-mail with its complete lack of categorization
is the wrong method for package updates. Perhaps RSS?)

Bill




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