Hi Ludo, all,
Yesterday, we had our monthly 🗼 + 🍺 + Guix = ❤️ and someone pointed
that we have not communicated much about the GCD. And indeed. :-)
Therefore, I’m preparing a blog post! :-)
Hum, maybe we could also send a message to info-guix to explain. WDYT?
Somehow, the feedback you get is maybe a consequence of this lack of
communication.
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 at 12:22, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> I received this message:
>
> > in the last 2 days I get mails from guix-info that really aren't
> > worthy of the implied notification level.
> >
> > Subject: [GCD] Set search paths without program wrappers
> >
> > And some discussion about changing the git default branch name, not
> > an announcement if it will change but indirect mails about
> > discussion about it.
>
> I can understand that since info-guix is advertised as a “Low-traffic
> mailing list for announcements to Guix users”¹.
Euh, I will not consider 3 emails for this month as “High-Traffic”,
is it?
> Did we go overboard with the requirement to send GCDs to info-guix?
I copy/paste what I wrote elsewhere [1]. :-)
Somehow, I expect that the traffic of GCD will be low. I mean,
because the process is new then somehow we have many pending
points to discuss. But once it runs, I expect a traffic
matching the low traffic of the info-guix list. And if the
traffic remains too high for the info-guix list, we will adapt
and create a dedicated list. It's hard to predict beforehand.
Well, that's my point of view. :-)
Moreover, if it’s a GCD, then it means it has a broad impact, and how to
find the right balance:
• We do not go via info-guix and then people will complain because
they had not been aware and they did not have the opportunity to
raise their voice;
• We go via info-guix and then yes the traffic on info-guix might be a
bit higher than usual for the next 4-6 months (the time we clean
some [1-3] “big” topics pending over the past months/years).
My conclusion: We start with info-guix for the 6 months and if the
traffic is too high (define high? ;-)) then we create a dedicated
mailing list.
WDYT?
Cheers,
simon
1: Re: [GCD] Set search paths without program wrappers
Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com>
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:28:13 +0100
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2025-02
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