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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: rekado@elephly.net, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:08:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e6cee12-07d0-6d08-1dcf-35ce19bdd58d@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inc0gzoz.fsf@elephly.net>

Ricardo,

I don't know who wrote the current intro, but I think it's pretty good.
Have you got negative feedback from curious visitors?

Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 17/01/18 at 18:30:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> on the website it starts right away with a list of features:
> “Liberating”, “Dependable”, and “Hackable”.  But what is this thing
> called Guix?

It's not just a list of features. The current intro is:

  - Liberating. The Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) is an advanced
    distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU
    Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.

  - Dependable. It comes with the GNU Guix package manager, which in
    addition to standard package management features, supports
    transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package
    management, per-user profiles, and more.

  - Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level
    embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and
    whole-system configurations.

I like the way it mixes description, features, and values without
getting lost in marketing-speak. It also breaks up the text into small
chunks, which is apparently mandatory on the 'Net.

That's not to say there's no room for improvement. Paragraph #1 in
particular might be a bit vague and verbose. But who's talking.

> We should add a very short paragraph above that list to say what Guix
> and GuixSD are.
>> What do you think?

Hm, what do you suggest?

Kind regards,

T G-R

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-17 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-17 17:30 website: say what Guix is at the very top Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-17 18:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2018-01-19  8:04   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-21 17:11     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-19  6:09 ` George myglc2 Clemmer
2018-01-19  7:42   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-19 13:32     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-19 20:35       ` myglc2
2018-01-21 14:47       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-24  5:54         ` myglc2
2018-01-24 14:24           ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-01-24 14:22         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 23:03           ` myglc2
2018-01-27 16:14             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-27 18:20               ` myglc2
2018-01-27 21:59                 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-28 16:24                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-29  4:14                   ` myglc2
2018-01-29  7:37                     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-29 21:31                       ` Cook, Malcolm
2018-01-29 22:20                         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-29 22:24                           ` Cook, Malcolm
2018-01-30  1:03                             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-30 22:17                               ` myglc2
2018-01-30  1:43                             ` George myglc2 Clemmer
2018-01-30  2:56                               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-30  7:31                           ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-30  7:46                           ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-31 16:58                       ` myglc2
2018-01-31 17:27                         ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-31 18:11                           ` myglc2
2018-01-31 18:13                             ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-28  0:35               ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-22  7:04 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-22 16:43   ` myglc2
2018-03-16  7:14     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-24 14:19   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-28  0:33     ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-28 21:58       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-29  2:08         ` Chris Marusich

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