04/04: Add Savannah's "About" footer.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository maintenance.

commit 471b48929089da0be651e89f28eb162f6bfe7e32
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue May 12 10:45:09 2015 +0200

    Add Savannah's "About" footer.
---
 doc/announcements/savannah/about.txt |    7 +++++++
 doc/release.org                      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/announcements/savannah/about.txt 
b/doc/announcements/savannah/about.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42536dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/announcements/savannah/about.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+== About GNU Guix ==
+
+[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix GNU Guix] is a functional package manager 
for the GNU system.  The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced 
distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and 
[http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html respects 
the user's freedom].
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports 
transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, 
per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  Guix uses low-level mechanisms from 
the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native 
[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile Guile] modules, using extensions to the 
[http://schemers.org Scheme] language.  GuixSD offers a declarative approach to 
operating system configuration management, and is  [...]
+
+GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine.  It is also possible to use 
Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and 
armv7.
diff --git a/doc/release.org b/doc/release.org
index 81c2806..1b1274b 100644
--- a/doc/release.org
+++ b/doc/release.org
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ Send to these places, preferably in the morning on a 
working day (UTC):
 
 The news will end up on planet.gnu.org and [[http://scheme.dk/planet/][Planet 
Scheme]].  The text can
 be shorter and more informal, with a link to the email announcement for
-details.
+details.  Add the [[./announcements/savannah/about.txt]["About" footer]] at 
the bottom of the announcement.