[Nix-dev] Breaking changes log

[Wout Mertens]

Nice though it seems a bit complex. Not sure if it's over-engineered or
just what's needed.

Also interesting:
*"There have been complaints regarding the comprehensibility of some
upgrade notices and news items in the past. This is understandable — not
every Gentoo developer speaks English as a first language. However, for the
sake of clarity, professionalism and avoiding making us look like prats, it
is important that any language problems be corrected before inflicting a
news item upon end users.*

*Thus, at least 72 hours before a proposed news item is committed, it must
be posted to the gentoo-dev mailing list and Cc:ed to pr at gentoo.org
<pr at gentoo.org> (exceptions may be made in exceptional circumstances). Any
complaints — for example regarding wording, clarity or accuracy — must be
addressed before the news item goes live."*

<shudder>

Wout.


On Wed Dec 17 2014 at 2:45:31 PM Oliver Charles <ollie at ocharles.org.uk>
wrote:

> One thing I really like is Gentoo's "news" feature - which seems to be
> discussed in detail at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:42. Maybe
> something like that is what you're envisioning?
>
> -- ocharles
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Would it be nice if we kept a file with breaking changes?
>>
>> That way, nixos-rebuild should be able to list the breaking changes
>> between the current version of the channel and the last time the system was
>> built.
>>
>> We'd also have the full list of breakage for release notes.
>>
>> Thoughts? What would such a log look like?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wout.
>>
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