[arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Manolo Martínez
<manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:
> On 07/20/12 at 09:31pm, Florian Pritz wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:15:47 -0400 Manolo Martínez <manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:
>> > On 07/20/12 at 02:56pm, Daniel Wallace wrote:
>> > > All of those changes were discussed by the devs on arch-dev-public
>> >
>> > I, for one, thought that running archlinux responsibly only committed me
>> > to subscribing to and reading arch-announce and -general. If I need to
>> > read -dev-public too I will, but it'd be good to be explicit about this.
>>
>> You don't have to read arch-dev-public if you just want to use Arch, but
>> your original question was about the reasoning behind the move and that
>> information is available in the mailing list archives.
>
> No, apparently you do need to know why and how these things are done even if you just
> want to use Arch and don't plan to develop for it. That's a lesson I learnt around here anyway.

The aim is that reading the news items should be enough to deal with
any update. If you want notifications in advance of future plans or if
you want to understand the reasoning behind certain changes, then
following arch-dev-public should be enough. arch-general is typically
for user discussions, and not so much for development discussions.

-t