Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-30 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public
On 30/07/2019 09.33, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 30/07/2019 02.44, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: >> One problem I see with the News section is that it's Dev only. I >> wouldn't even know who I need to ask (and I am TU for several years >> now). > > The

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-30 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public
On 30/07/2019 02.44, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > One problem I see with the News section is that it's Dev only. I > wouldn't even know who I need to ask (and I am TU for several years > now). The list of developers is public. If after few years you don't know a single person

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 30/7/19 10:44 am, Christian Rebischke wrote: > One problem I see with the News section is that it's Dev only. I > wouldn't even know who I need to ask (and I am TU for several years > now). I mean I could just ask around in the IRC, but it would be nice to > have this at least documented

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:16:17AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/7/19 8:47 am, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I got assigned to this issue here: > > > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62823 > > > > The users would like to have a notice in pre/post

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
> We already have this feature. > > Add the following to the PKGBUILD, and rebuild it: > > changelog=NEWS > > Now, the user may at any time run the following command for an installed > package: > > $ pacman -Qc pkgname > Changelog for pkgname: > [contents of NEWS file] > > Changelogs are

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
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

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 30/7/19 8:47 am, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hello everybody, > I got assigned to this issue here: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62823 > > The users would like to have a notice in pre/post install/upgrade > notifications via pacman .install files. > > I am not a

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Santiago Torres-Arias via arch-dev-public
> > Con: > > - We bloat our repository > > We already have this feature. > > Add the following to the PKGBUILD, and rebuild it: > > changelog=NEWS > > Now, the user may at any time run the following command for an installed > package: > > $ pacman -Qc pkgname > Changelog for pkgname: >

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Lukas Fleischer via arch-dev-public
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 > ` to retrieve NEWS about a certain package from an > endpoint. This

Re: [arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 7/29/19 6:47 PM, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hello everybody, > I got assigned to this issue here: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62823 > > The users would like to have a notice in pre/post install/upgrade > notifications via pacman .install files. > > I am not a

[arch-dev-public] New ideas for notifying users about (minor) changes

2019-07-29 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, I got assigned to this issue here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62823 The users would like to have a notice in pre/post install/upgrade notifications via pacman .install files. I am not a fan of spamming such news via pacman and I think the installation/upgrade process