From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Bandali Subject: Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:55:23 -0400 Message-ID: <874l6ysixg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <8736mjo29k.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGFBz-0002q1-HJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:55:32 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGFBv-0003JQ-W6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:55:29 -0400 Received: from [2607:fea8:3b80:184::2] (port=41686 helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hGFBt-0005z8-Tp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:55:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8736mjo29k.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Ludo=E2=80=99, all, On 2019-04-15 2:56 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: [...] > > =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 already provides high-level =E2=80=9Cpackage = news=E2=80=9D, but I agree it=E2=80=99d > be nice to have a way to convey =E2=80=9Csystem news=E2=80=9D and perhaps= free-form > messages like Debian=E2=80=99s change logs. > > I suppose we could use some specially-formatted Git commits to pass > messages to users. I=E2=80=99m afraid it would be hard to get those mess= ages > translated. > > Thoughts? > That=E2=80=99s an interesting idea. Another alternative, perhaps, could be having a =E2=80=9Cnews=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cbreaking changes=E2=80=9D secti= on/topic on the Guix blog, ideally with a dedicated atom feed, where one could follow changes with drastic change in system and/or package behaviour, or ones potentially requiring a manual intervention of sorts. Both Parabola and Hyperbola have that section on their website, with latest news shown on the front page. Thoughts? Best, amin