On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 04:41:16PM +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi John, > > John Kehayias 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! I think we can wait until after the deadline ends to revert it, as long as it's already there. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted