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.