"Ludovic Court=C3= =A8s" <ludo@gnu=2Eorg> skrev: (8 januari 2019 18:37:53 CET)
Hello,

L  p R n  d n    <guix@lprndn=2Einf=
o> skribis:

 Aft=
er taking some time learning Guix and trying to get some new packages
 i=
n, I wanted get involved in a slightly different way=2E I'm not good at
=
 programming and I think my time might be better used participating in
 =
tasks a little more inline with my skills=2E
 The thing is that I find "=
design" and "communication" (take it in a very broad
 way) often a littl=
e more complex and delicate to tackle in a group
 project=2E This is why=
 I'm introducing the idea with this mail=2E

This is one=
 of the non-programming activities where Guix needs help so
I=E2=80=99m =
glad you=E2=80=99re offering to contribute!

 I think the Guix project could benefit a lot from=
 dealing with the
 "rest of the world" and how it wants to show itself=
=2E It might even help
 clarify some technical decisions if needed=2E Bo=
nus is that next release
 will probably be 1=2E0 and that it means Guix =
will get extra attention=2E

 I have a few things I would like to tal=
k about but, as I don't want to
 force aniything on anyone, I wanted to =
first have your thoughts about this and
 eventually what you guix people=
 think would be nice to tackle on=2E (I
 think I saw something about a w=
iki somewhere for example etc=2E)

I=E2=80=99m not sure =
we need a wiki=2E  :-)

A very concrete task that could be of interes=
t to you is the =E2=80=9Cname
change=E2=80=9D (a bit of a strong word) t=
hat we=E2=80=99d like to implement by 1=2E0=2E
I=E2=80=99ll try to summa=
rize=2E  Currently we have =E2=80=9CGuix=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CGuixSD=E2=80=
=9D, and that
confuses things: people visit the web site, they see a =E2=
=80=9CGuixSD=E2=80=9D logo and
get confused because they were just looki=
ng for a package manager, not a
whole distro, or they think =E2=80=9CGui=
xSD=E2=80=9D is a storage device ;-), things
like that=2E

The ide=
a is to bring everything under the =E2=80=9CGuix=E2=80=9D name=2E  Most of =
the
time, writing =E2=80=9CGuix=E2=80=9D is good enough=E2=80=94after al=
l, one can run =E2=80=98guix system=E2=80=99
on a foreign distro, too=2E=
  When we really need to make the distinction,
for instance in the manua=
l, we would write =E2=80=9CGuix System=E2=80=9D to designate
what we cur=
rently call =E2=80=9CGuixSD=E2=80=9D=2E

This has implications mostly=
 on the web site and on the manual=2E  Ricardo
sketched web site modific=
ations here:

  https://lists=2Egnu=2Eorg/archive/html/gui=
x-devel/2018-01/msg00300=2Ehtml

It would probably have further i=
mplications on how we present
Guix/GuixSD=2E

WDYT?

 By the way, I wanted to start wo=
rking on the documentation=2E 
 IMHO, it might benefit from a little gra=
phical enhancement for
 newcomers=2E The thing is that it's currently ho=
sted on
 gnu=2Eorg so it's probably not possible to modify the design=2E=
 So I wanted
 to ask, first, if that's something that would be welcome? =
What could be
 the possibilities? And what would be the technical limita=
tions?

The HTML pages at gnu=2Eorg/s/guix/manual are ge=
nerated from Texinfo=2E  The
CSS there is shared with all the GNU manual=
s, which is nice for
consistency=2E  Ideally modifications of the CSS wo=
uld be submitted to the
GNU webmaster or bug-gnulib@gnu=2Eorg (I forgot =
which one)=2E  However, be
aware that you may encounter misplaced conser=
vatism if you take that
route, so don=E2=80=99t lose your hair on it=2E<=
br>
Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99=2E