Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-11 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:33:38 -0500 Ludovic Courtès wrote > Hello, > > sirgazil skribis: > > > > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as entries > > > > in the current blog, tagged as "News" entries? > > > > > > Right, that's something I did

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, sirgazil skribis: > > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as entries > > > in the current blog, tagged as "News" entries? > > > > Right, that's something I didn't really consider. > > > > Thinking about it now, I think it's worth considering though. W

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Baines skribis: > Yep, with respect to contributing content, it would be good to make it > really easy. I was also thinking an IRC bot could maybe be used, so you > message it the content, and it somehow makes it appear in the news > entry. Oh, that’d be fun. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Christopher Baines skribis: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Pjotr Prins writes: >> >>> Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the >>> current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but >>> I would like a search function because one keeps click

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread sirgazil
On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:52:25 -0500 Christopher Baines wrote > > sirgazil writes: > > > On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 07:19:42 -0500 Christopher Baines > > wrote [...] > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as entries > > in the current blog, ta

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
sirgazil writes: > On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 07:19:42 -0500 Christopher Baines > wrote > > > Hey, > > > > So this is something that might have come up in discussion once or > > twice, but I've now got around to actually building a prototype. > > > > You can see it here: http://protot

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> So this is something that might have come up in discussion once or >> twice, but I've now got around to actually building a prototype. >> >> You can see it here: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/ > > I think this is great!

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
zimoun writes: > To complement, some monthly information about debbugs should be nice > too; maybe provided by Mumi. > Some time ago [1] Pjotr proposed something like: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > Summary > > Status > 31 Outstanding >

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-07 Thread Christopher Baines
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:36:46AM +, Christopher Baines wrote: >> > Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the >> > current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but >> > I would like a search function because one keeps clic

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-06 Thread sirgazil
Hi, Christopher. On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 07:19:42 -0500 Christopher Baines wrote > Hey, > > So this is something that might have come up in discussion once or > twice, but I've now got around to actually building a prototype. > > You can see it here: http://prototype-guix-we

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi there! Christopher Baines skribis: > So this is something that might have come up in discussion once or > twice, but I've now got around to actually building a prototype. > > You can see it here: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/ I think this is great! I second the suggestion t

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread zimoun
Hi, To complement, some monthly information about debbugs should be nice too; maybe provided by Mumi. Some time ago [1] Pjotr proposed something like: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Summary Status 31 Outstanding 18 Resolved Severity

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:36:46AM +, Christopher Baines wrote: > > Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the > > current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but > > I would like a search function because one keeps clicking to find a > > certain p

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Pjotr Prins writes: > >> Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the >> current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but >> I would like a search function because one keeps clicking to find a >> certain package. > > There i

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 12:19:42PM +, Christopher Baines wrote: >> 1: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/en_US/2019/41.html >> 2: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/en_US/2019/42.html > > I think it would be useful to show a rolling report of upgra

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Christopher Baines
L p R n d n writes: > As for the cadence, I'm not really sure. 1 Month seems nice because it > gives probably enough time for people to write one or two sentences on > whats happening without to much of a burden for each post. Or if we go > for a weekly post, I think we should stick with automat

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-04 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pjotr Prins writes: > Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the > current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but > I would like a search function because one keeps clicking to find a > certain package. There is such a search function here: https:

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-04 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 12:19:42PM +, Christopher Baines wrote: > 1: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/en_US/2019/41.html > 2: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/en_US/2019/42.html I think it would be useful to show a rolling report of upgraded/added packages. We used to

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-04 Thread L p R n d n
Hello, Thanks for the work and the proposal! :) I find it very interesting! As Guix is somewhat (?) a rolling release, having a regular source of news and progress report would be very welcome, I think. It lowers the level of commitment needed to follow the guix project, specially for newcomers,

Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-03 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, So this is something that might have come up in discussion once or twice, but I've now got around to actually building a prototype. You can see it here: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/ Now that I've actually spent some time implementing something, I feel like this has led to