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

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>>> I think everyone is familiar with the topic, and this isn't an attempt
>>> to branch into, just a side question.
>>>
>>> Does the Fedora community see a need for a simple (yet robust)
>>> communication system (possibly one way) from the Fedora elders to the
>>> Fedora users? The idea being that if there was such a system now, and
>>> alert could be sent out and people could be aware of the issue and the
>>> work around, without relying on a mailing list, etc?
>>
>> How are fedora-announce, the blogs and the webpages NOT this?
>
> You don't get any of them with Fedora, that's primary difference I
> see. During the new-key issue, many people claimed not to be on the
> announce list for various reasons. All of these require you to check
> regularly, or be aware that there is an ongoing issue.
>
> But you are right, what we have now may be adequate. This is what I am
> trying to to determine.

My problem is we could have a international klaxon alert system which 
secretly uses traffic lights to warn people of fedora changes and we would 
still get some folks who wouldn't notice.

:)

-sv