Bug 353586 – Email Addresses for the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter (GMN) Bounce

• Product: Websites
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description David 2011-02-03 06:02:04 UTC]

Sending a message to [e-mail] results in a bounce message.

4 days ago I emailed the author of the above-mentioned website (Anant Narayanan, [e-mail]) but haven't heard back.

I appears that www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/ needs updating.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
The bounce message is here:


This is the mail system at host smtp.gentoo.org.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

                  The mail system

<[e-mail]> (expanded from <[e-mail]>): unknown
   user: "gwn-writers"

Final-Recipient: rfc822; [e-mail]
Original-Recipient: rfc822;[e-mail]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; unknown user: "gwn-writers"



The original message I was trying to send to [e-mail]...



Hi,

I have used Gentoo for about 5 years now.  Really wish the Newsletter was still published; I enjoyed it when it was published, and I bet it provided helpful updates to lots of people  (as well as providing the "signs of life" that would quiet down the Gentoo-is-dead people).  I'm guessing that GMN died because of the amount of work it took?

My random thought is that if the GMN were reduced in size to a smaller, more-manageable project, then at least something solid could be sent out with some details about the happenings within the Gentoo world.

In fact, it seems that a lot of the content of the typical GMN is easily-retrievable from bugzilla and from listening to the appropriate Gentoo mailing lists.

Thinking of how I could be a benefit to GMN, even if Bugzilla can give me some package stats, and if someone from the Council could provide a couple lines summarizing anything of interest to the public, then I could pick a few highlights from the Planet and mailing lists for a GMN.  The more reporting that can be automatically done for the GMN person, the easier it would be to get GMN sent out.

Just some thoughts ~

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2011-02-03 08:45:38 UTC]

That's 'cause he's not a Gentoo developer anymore. We can't do anything about forwarded email to outdated addresses. If a former developer wants to be contacted, they may leave us an address, they might not.

Also, the page you refer to just lists people who have written the XML code of that page, not the current maintainers of it.

FYI, I ran the GMN project after Anant left, but due to lack of interest and contributors from the community, the project went on hiatus. There have also been several underlying technology changes; for example, most stuff that used to appear in newsletters now appears much more frequently on the front page of gentoo.org and in the Planet feed.