Hello Guix,
I'd like to propose that we deprecate the practice of simply writing
"Update snapshot" in the summary line of software updates, and instead
consistently write "Update to <version>", as we do for the vast majority
of updates.
This practice seems to have originated with our 'guix-devel' package,
and iirc for a long time that was the sole exception to our usual
convention. However, recently I've seen this practice gradually
spreading to other packages, e.g. gcl, kodi, xf86-video-intel, cuirass,
guile2.2-ssh, etc. I've CC'd the few Guix developers who have started
doing this.
In my opinion, the version number is a very useful piece of information
to see for update commits when browsing the commit history. I regard
the practice of omitting the version number to be a slowly creeping
regression in our otherwise exceptionally good conventions for commit
logs. I humbly propose that we nip this regression in the bud.
What do you think?
Mark
