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

[Christian Rebischke]

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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