[bug#74549] News entry for the survey

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 04:41:16PM +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> 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.

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