From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>
Cc: "Simon Tournier" <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically testing package updates
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:31:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmge6tad.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877c8e8dh1.fsf@gmail.com> (Suhail Singh's message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:29:46 -0500")
Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> Also I don't think we should spam the bug tracker with package upgrades,
>> so we'd have to think about something for that.
>
> Could you clarify what you're objecting to? Is it bug issues being
> created that are then not (as is currently the case) automatically
> closed? Or is simply the creation of bug issues problematic, even if
> they were to be closed automatically by a bot (yet to be implemented)?
It would be preferable to automate trivial updates *completely*, even
bypassing the need for manual patch generation and submission to the bug
tracker. I'd rather reserve the issue tracker for humans and keep bots
in a realm that is separate from the user interfaces designed for
humans.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-05 15:32 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 [this message]
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
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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