[bug#74549] News entry for the survey

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi John,

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hi Maxim,
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 01:41 PM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit surprised by the need of a news entry for this; I'd typically
>> consider only news that impact users, or at least the software that Guix
>> constitutes, as news worthy :-).  I wouldn't like the news channel to
>> become some place where more "random" things get advertised, such as
>> venues and what not.
>>
>> I'd prefer if this was kept to other communication channels, suchas the
>> help-guix mailing list or the #guix IRC channel.
>>
>> My 2 cents!
>
> Apologies for perhaps rushing this. I should have asked around and
> gotten some consensus before such a change to how we use news. While I
> do think it can be useful for such a thing, I do agree that this
> probably leads to an erosion of the intended purpose of guix pull
> --news now that I think more about it.

Perhaps I was a bit slow to answer -- I have a steady stream of messages
to attend to.

> Does it make sense to revert it (how does that end up working for
> news)? I can revert with a note to keep news more directly
> software-related, lest it sets a precedent. Though maybe this should
> be opened up to wider discussion.

I don't foresee a problem with reverting a news entry; people pulling to
a commit before the reversal will see the news, those to a commit
including it shouldn't see it.

It's not a big deal, but in order to not set a precedent, I'd rather see
it reverted.  I've answered the survey, by the way!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim