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[bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
[bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:16:50 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> It’s a bit weird to refer to commits from within a file in the repo
>>>>> because it almost forces you to push so that you know the commit ID
>>>>> that your news entry should refer to. News entries become obsolete
>>>>> if you rebase, too. I think it’s acceptable, though.
>>>>
>>>> Would tags be acceptable instead of commit IDs? I think version tags
>>>> would be easier to deal with than commit IDs and it wouldn’t require
>>>> time travel as you can just make up a new version and refer to that in
>>>> the news file.
>>>
>>> So you would add a Git tag like “news-xyz” on the commit of interest and
>>> then refer to it in the news entry?
>>
>> No, I actually meant for releases. For a channel it seems to me that a
>> release would make sense whenever information must be displayed to the
>> users (presumably to announce breaking changes).
>
> The way I see it, we could use it in between release. I’d have used it
> to announce lzip support (and then explain how users can migrate, which
> I think many haven’t done because they’re unaware), improvements to
> ‘guix pack’, the addition of ‘guix deploy’, things like that.
>
> Does that make sense?
I see. Well, I think there’s no harm in pushing the changes first and
then pushing a follow-up commit with the news entry referencing the
commit.
This all looks good to me. Sure seems useful!
--
Ricardo
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 7/9] pull: '-l' displays channel news., (continued)
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 7/9] pull: '-l' displays channel news., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/15
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 6/9] pull: Display channel news., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/15
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 3/9] git: Add 'commit-difference'., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/15
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 8/9] Add '.guix-channel' file., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/15
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 9/9] DRAFT etc: Add channel news file., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/15
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 4/9] channels: Add support for a news file., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/15
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/09/16
[bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/16
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, Julien Lepiller, 2019/09/16
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/09/16
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/17
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/09/17
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/17
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/09/17
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/09/17
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/09/17
- [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism, Julien Lepiller, 2019/09/17