From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: L p R n d n Subject: Communication and Design at Guix Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:49:57 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36583) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggtdf-0001Z5-Cg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:50:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggtdd-0006LQ-Gu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:49:59 -0500 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.142]:39989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggtdb-000676-PE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:49:55 -0500 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3165D2400E5 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:49:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 43YxXZ1ytHz9rxB for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:49:50 +0100 (CET) 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, After taking some time learning Guix and trying to get some new packages in, I wanted get involved in a slightly different way. 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. The thing is that I find "design" and "communication" (take it in a very broad way) often a little more complex and delicate to tackle in a group project. This is why I'm introducing the idea with this mail. I think the Guix project could benefit a lot from dealing with the "rest of the world" and how it wants to show itself. It might even help clarify some technical decisions if needed. Bonus is that next release will probably be 1.0 and that it means Guix will get extra attention. I have a few things I would like to talk 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. (I think I saw something about a wiki somewhere for example etc.) By the way, I wanted to start working on the documentation. IMHO, it might benefit from a little graphical enhancement for newcomers. The thing is that it's currently hosted on gnu.org so it's probably not possible to modify the design. 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 limitations? Thank you for your time, Have a nice day, Lprndn