Hi Ludo, et al, On +2020-04-30 23:10:05 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...]
rc1: best-practice: commit logs: message syntax --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Nitpick: please include the canonical bug URL in commit logs rather > than a link to the mailing list, like so: > > Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/40790>. > > That makes it easier to grep for fixed bugs. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- ISTM your "nit-pick" is a good example of an embedded mail-list nugget. Here's my wish: If you and other developers notice (without false modesty ;-) that you are posting a good example of something, then if you would enclose it in guix snippet-delimiters as above, with a single prefixed line starting with "primary-focus-subject:" and optionally followed by other greppable (or list-matchable) sub-categories or ad-hoc words or names or tags, then these nuggets would be easy to extract automatically, to create a treasure-trove of searchable useful goodies. I would hope to see useful one-liners and examples of package definition, system configs, debugging methods, small scripts, and good info-URLs etc. delimited and prefixed. (The "primary-focus-subject:" of "rc1:" would permit us to invent improved syntaxes and evolve them as "rc2" etc until we settle on a canonical set for primary foci, (and PEG grammar for the rest, if we want to get fancy). Perhaps the servers could have a gem-and-nugget-bot authoring an html blog of these things, with automatic attibutions etc from email headers? -- Regards, Bengt Richter
