Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Amin Bandali writes:

> Hi Ludo’, all,
>
> On 2019-04-15  2:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> ‘guix pull’ already provides high-level “package news”, but I agree it’d
>> be nice to have a way to convey “system news” and perhaps free-form
>> messages like Debian’s change logs.
>>
>> I suppose we could use some specially-formatted Git commits to pass
>> messages to users.  I’m afraid it would be hard to get those messages
>> translated.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> That’s an interesting idea.  Another alternative, perhaps, could be
> having a “news” or “breaking changes” section/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

I second this idea.