[bug#74549] News entry for the survey

[John Kehayias]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 01:46 PM, Efraim Flashner wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 04:41:16PM +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi Maxim,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 01:41 PM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm a bit surprised by the need of a news entry for this; I'd typically
>> >> consider only news that impact users, or at least the software that Guix
>> >> constitutes, as news worthy :-).  I wouldn't like the news channel to
>> >> become some place where more "random" things get advertised, such as
>> >> venues and what not.
>> >>
>> >> I'd prefer if this was kept to other communication channels, suchas the
>> >> help-guix mailing list or the #guix IRC channel.
>> >>
>> >> My 2 cents!
>> >
>> > Apologies for perhaps rushing this. I should have asked around and
>> > gotten some consensus before such a change to how we use news. While I
>> > do think it can be useful for such a thing, I do agree that this
>> > probably leads to an erosion of the intended purpose of guix pull
>> > --news now that I think more about it.
>>
>> Perhaps I was a bit slow to answer -- I have a steady stream of messages
>> to attend to.
>>

No worries. As do I, which is why I hadn't raised earlier, as I should
have.

>> > Does it make sense to revert it (how does that end up working for
>> > news)? I can revert with a note to keep news more directly
>> > software-related, lest it sets a precedent. Though maybe this should
>> > be opened up to wider discussion.
>>
>> I don't foresee a problem with reverting a news entry; people pulling to
>> a commit before the reversal will see the news, those to a commit
>> including it shouldn't see it.
>>
>> It's not a big deal, but in order to not set a precedent, I'd rather see
>> it reverted.  I've answered the survey, by the way!
>
> I think we can wait until after the deadline ends to revert it, as long
> as it's already there.

Sounds good. I'll revert by Monday, noting in the commit message why
and as notice for what news.scm should be used for.

Thanks for the understanding!

John