From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Please write "Update to " instead of "Update snapshot" Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:43:11 -0500 Message-ID: <87d145vpi8.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIl2z-0006q8-Lv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:43:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eIl2z-0006AV-0S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:43:49 -0500 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 Hello Guix, I'd like to propose that we deprecate the practice of simply writing "Update snapshot" in the summary line of software updates, and instead consistently write "Update to ", as we do for the vast majority of updates. This practice seems to have originated with our 'guix-devel' package, and iirc for a long time that was the sole exception to our usual convention. However, recently I've seen this practice gradually spreading to other packages, e.g. gcl, kodi, xf86-video-intel, cuirass, guile2.2-ssh, etc. I've CC'd the few Guix developers who have started doing this. In my opinion, the version number is a very useful piece of information to see for update commits when browsing the commit history. I regard the practice of omitting the version number to be a slowly creeping regression in our otherwise exceptionally good conventions for commit logs. I humbly propose that we nip this regression in the bud. What do you think? Mark