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From: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
To: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@elephly.net>,
	"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 19:07:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <UyK5AUS0t_4hOooVgcfRLtxe_ItA9r4YDwjKXY4QFZ9YYmj6WUNGTiBVu7Vw5nPba2nfOlTi4YYHW8SqLPjFqCL_Bgnh-2G1cFrhocLbmBo=@lendvai.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ldwu860j.fsf@gmail.com>

> If we do decide to keep bots in a separate realm as it were, it would be
> desirable (and in my opinion, important) if that still allowed for at
> least as much transparency that the issue tracker provides for human
> activities.


what other data would you miss that is not available in the git log?

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.

for at least two reasons:

 - it's a lot of wasted effort; the admin overhead of a simple package
   update is several times of the effort that goes into creating the
   patch. it gives the impression that the project organization
   doesn't value the time of its participants.

 - when i search for something, it's lost in the noise of boring and
   obsolete stuff in the issue tracker (package updates being one
   source). if a bot joins the "effort", i'm afraid it'll become that
   much worse.

-- 
• attila lendvai
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-05 19:34 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 [this message]
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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