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

[Les Mikesell]

Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>> I was thinking more of a human driven system.
>>
>> Example:
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>> 1) The recent email to the announce list would be "sent out" to all
>> F10 users as a "critical alerting" instructing them accordingly.
> 
> We don't have any way to notify all fedora users. We don't even remotely 
> have anything like a users list and we won't be getting one.

Why not put info in a package that updates like binaries with some tool 
to display the latest version at various occasions (bootup, starting 
updates, updates that pull a new version, etc.?

> 
>> 2) Something takes down the build system, a "infrastructure alert:
>> would go out letting everyone know that updates will be dead for x
>> hours"
> 
> and that would be sent, where?

Of course it wouldn't work to notify that the update system was broken...

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