Hi,
On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 6:16 PM, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:52:30PM +0200, Léo Le Bouter wrote: > > > On Tue, 2021-03-30 at 12:37 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > > > To me, a good way to make sure work remains “in progress” is to post > > > regular updates to this list, and then to write blog posts for the > > > web > > > site whenever an important milestone is reached. > > > I think a web page is likely to quickly become outdated… unless said > > > work transitions from “in progress” to “stalled”. :-) > > > > I feel like using the mailing list fails at solving one concern that is > > discoverability of WIP problems for people to show up and help tackle > > them, even if they were abandonned by the people who started them. Not > > everyone can handle the load of incoming mail in the ML. On the GNOME > > 40 upgrade for example I linked the mailing list thread on the wiki > > page also. The wiki page is also more likely to get outdated if it > > doesnt have great visibility on the GNU Guix official website, that, > > for sure. > > Yeah, I agree that it's hard to learn about "what's cooking" when you > first arrive at the mailing lists. > > It's true that wikis tend to get out of date, but I think that it won't > be too bad for this use case. At least, it won't be worse than the > mailing lists, for newcomers who want to know about longer-term efforts > like the GNOME upgrade. I just sent a patch to include a link to the wiki in the Help page (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47555). If the patch is applied, I can send a separate patch to update the Help menu as Vincent suggested: Help • GNU Guix Manual • Videos • Cookbook • GNU Manuals • Wiki • IRC Chat • Mailing lists If people think it's ok.
