Re: Document our WIP

[Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com>]

Hi,


On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:16 PM, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:52:30PM +0200, Léo Le Bouter wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 12:37 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >
> > > To me, a good way to make sure work remains “in progress” is to post
> > > regular updates to this list, and then to write blog posts for the
> > > web
> > > site whenever an important milestone is reached.
> > > I think a web page is likely to quickly become outdated… unless said
> > > work transitions from “in progress” to “stalled”. :-)
> >
> > I feel like using the mailing list fails at solving one concern that is
> > discoverability of WIP problems for people to show up and help tackle
> > them, even if they were abandonned by the people who started them. Not
> > everyone can handle the load of incoming mail in the ML. On the GNOME
> > 40 upgrade for example I linked the mailing list thread on the wiki
> > page also. The wiki page is also more likely to get outdated if it
> > doesnt have great visibility on the GNU Guix official website, that,
> > for sure.
>
> Yeah, I agree that it's hard to learn about "what's cooking" when you
> first arrive at the mailing lists.
>
> It's true that wikis tend to get out of date, but I think that it won't
> be too bad for this use case. At least, it won't be worse than the
> mailing lists, for newcomers who want to know about longer-term efforts
> like the GNOME upgrade.

I just sent a patch to include a link to the wiki in the Help page (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47555).

If the patch is applied, I can send a separate patch to update the Help menu as Vincent suggested:

Help
• GNU Guix Manual
• Videos
• Cookbook
• GNU Manuals
• Wiki
• IRC Chat
• Mailing lists

If people think it's ok.