Re: Please write "Update to " instead of "Update snapshot"

2017-11-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 07:43:11PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> 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

Re: Please write "Update to " instead of "Update snapshot"

2017-11-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 07:43:11PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > 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

Re: Please write "Update to " instead of "Update snapshot"

2017-11-25 Thread Kei Kebreau
I thought "Update snapshot." had become customary for updating to different VCS commits. I am in favor of keeping "Update to ." where is the Guix version string of the package in question. This practice is especially useful when using "git shortlog" and related tools. signature.asc Description:

Please write "Update to " instead of "Update snapshot"

2017-11-25 Thread Mark H Weaver
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 ", as we do for the vast majority of updates. This practice seems to have originated with our 'guix-devel'