On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 18:47:44, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > So what can we do here? I am a big fan of Gentoos Newsletter feature[1]. > It would be super awesome if we would have a tool such like `archnews > <packagename>` to retrieve NEWS about a certain package from an > endpoint. This endpoint should be controllable by every maintainer (devs > and TUs included). I discussed this with coderobe a bit and we came to > different solutions: > > > Solution 1: a NEWS file inside of the package repository: > -------------------------------------------------------- > [...] > Solution 2: commit messages as NEWS > ------------------------------------ > [...] > Solution 3: A webapp on news.archlinux.org with a fancy UI > -----------------------------------------------------------
If we decide to do this, why don't we simply add a file to the package? It's simple, works offline, and always gives you the right version of the news for your system.
