Re: Guix packaging meetup: Saturday 27 November

[Tobias Platen]

I'm interested in joining that packaging meetup, since I have been
using Guix for some years, and want to package some software that I
have written and already packaged for Debian.

Tobias Alexandra

On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 22:01 +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Hi jgart,
> 
> Thank you for the invitation!
> 
> jgart 写道：
> > Not sure what to do at this point.
> 
> At this point, not much: you might reply to the mail with a 
> non-empty subject, and hope that people will reply to that one, or 
> that they will manually copy it when replying to your original 
> post.  Others might add a meaningful subject of their own, as I 
> have tried to do.
> 
> Still, expect some untitled ‘Re:’ messages.  It's not the end of 
> the world :-)
> 
> Mailing list archives are just that: snapshots of each message 
> sent to members.  They do not generally offer a way to modify 
> recorded history[0].  They do not really track mutable state such 
> as ‘topics’.
> 
> Threading is (or should be) based on message IDs, although some 
> archivers will use the subject as an additional heuristic.
> 
> bug-guix/guix-patches are simple bug trackers built on top of 
> mailing lists that add such mutable state (‘bug title’, priority, 
> openness, etc.) but this is a separate database.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R
> 
> [0]: Exceptions like GDPR and ‘asking nicely to remove 
> embarrassing info’ exist, but are by definition exceptional and 
> often involve human administrator action.