On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 07:36:31PM -0400, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > 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.
good point, I guess this would be solution number 4.
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