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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1669064459; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=Nn+shaglESOLv0NiZPptDLI3JYIVmbnHsWSJCoo/UPg=; b=lEUG2xydwky+EuTg6Iqxn8hYVEwypBLLJdU9cvGvPI2rlkiDTUa45OqMxszNiQsoiNq/Cg +nzhle6l8QP5YWHMj03PAAipuZq6rqe8GLbuRQyfs5cdXbNpblsqpMby4I/vQHCpNAYulT nc/HpI7QT05gnue8SMnNxkYFi7uAk7HgQAiTrYMCTfTChjRZyyfbRx2rNpjlTTK6GQwcN6 lb0Us+aJJW1SPBLfhNqON7BYM5Ef3RNp9JXht7KMKte9peK61nZPNhr5U16WZ+mSQCLg/A n6DXm1+HyUiaJZXAEzdOaH5OBftNIkntKeb2YSf78qtRvtJIkOYR7Tqum4PJtg== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1669064459; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=NhXyOF62sQSXNDSWyBmxB9NrT9HPK3Eo6q5YGD9qXu/RgAoXWSUuv4SzmrQGCm9kSj1njU r7geUQLcr8ZA/1OnNb+nAfDwqrYvW2LCYFUYIotd7hM0Dl2T+foOqB4788rFK1fPnZN/NQ 0/LGPrSl8V2JzagAzHsCxk/d5JeqEumkTB31rBSgxGnVt0BA4bfME06OIFaRA+MVGhD4Kz x3l5Ksukr5RCeXNPddqRn70QZw5iJWtyl7Cv835U2O8jrX6++aSNnNPccB4ii0sd9NZWc6 UDmh/dZcCGbnazU1HWORzp5GQIsV0BLmc7Np82haQ5Y1H7BRfuh2jlUBTq088Q== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=hErtdEH9; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -7.21 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=hErtdEH9; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: EE61D2D2D8 X-Spam-Score: -7.21 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: DnaYSwb+s+Cd Hi Katherine, Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > Maxim Cournoyer writes: > >> Apologies for causing grief! > > No worries at all, Maxim! The good you do far outweighs any grief, and > even if that weren't the case, we're only human :) > >> I'm taking yours and Ludovic's feedback into account for the future >> and will reach out to guix-devel with heads-up when introducing >> breaking changes to Guix APIs. > > This seems like the logical place to me, but it's also a bit busy for > announcements! I'm sure I'm not alone, but sometimes I'm very busy and > distracted and I need a very loud signal to let me know I need to take > action :) That's why I suggested info-guix. Its description reads: > > #+begin_quote > Subscribe to the info-guix low-traffic mailing list to receive important > announcements sent by the project maintainers (in English). > #+end_quote That sounds very appropriate indeed. I guess we could send announcements on API breaking changes to both places. I suppose not many people are registered to 'info-guix' (I wasn't myself until recently ^^'). > Would it make sense to publish there? I don't think we break APIs very often? > > Also, do we need any kind of formalization around lead-time for these > announcements? I guess that's a question of how disruptive the API change is, but it'd be convenient if it was 2 weeks to match the time the change might appear on guix-patches un-reviewed. I'll try to do this in the future (better yet, try to not affect APIs at all); if it works well for everybody, we could formalize that in our contributing section. -- Thanks, Maxim