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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>,
	 Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>,
	 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically testing package updates
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:46:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmg1keul.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r06l7vlm.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:55:49 +0100")

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> writes:
>
>> sidenote: as a newcomer i found it rather off-putting that the bug
>> tracker is full of random two-liner package updates, many long
>> forgotten and even obsolete.
>
> This is exactly my point and why I think the bug tracker must contain
> only *actionable* work that humans are meant to work on.  As we're
> trying to undo the damage of years of being overwhelmed by patches I'd
> really like to keep the issue tracker for humans only.

I wonder what level of human validation we’d want for “trivial updates”.
In Nixpkgs, IIUC, a bot submits pull requests and a human being
eventually clicks the merge button.

Ludo’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-14 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-02 13:44 Automatically testing package updates Ludovic Courtès
2024-12-02 14:50 ` Simon Tournier
2024-12-02 19:14 ` Simon Tournier
2024-12-02 19:16   ` Simon Tournier
2024-12-05  7:20   ` Efraim Flashner
2024-12-05  8:06     ` Hilton Chain
2024-12-05  9:23       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-05 13:29     ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-05 15:31       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-05 16:10         ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-05 19:07           ` Attila Lendvai
2024-12-05 19:55             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-06  5:09               ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-14 23:46               ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-12-06  4:53             ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-05 19:58           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-03  0:32 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-12-14 23:47   ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-12-03 14:01 Sharlatan Hellseher
2024-12-14 23:51 ` Ludovic Courtès

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