Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Ben Sturmfels <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'd love to be able to annotate user and system generations with some
> text, so that the text is shown back to me when running
> "--list-generations". For example:
>
>  - "Everything working, don't delete!" or
>  - "Testing with CUPS service disabled" or
>  - "Excluded Jupyter as build is currently failing" or
>  - "Trialing CSVkit"
>
> That way I can look back at `guix package --list-generations` and know
> what's I ought to keep or delete. Otherwise all you have is the list of
> packages but no information about the intent of each generation.

I like the idea!  Manifest entries have a ‘properties’ field that gets
serialized, and we could use that to store user-provided messages
(comments at the level of the manifest itself would be a better fit, but
I think it’s OK.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.