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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>,
	Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pushed a fix (?) for ACL key location
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:21:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86365wbyr4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2noc3qn.fsf@gnu.org>

Dear Marius,

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 14:33, Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> wrote:

> One possible solution that has been discussed before is to have the CI
> continously merge master to a 'stable' branch when lights are green.
> There are quite a few challenges to solve with that approach though.
>
> We could make the pre-push hook run 'guix pull' and 'guix system build'
> but it will quickly get annoying.  A server-side hook for the same would
> be less annoying, but would have a hard time if someone accidentally
> pushes a full rebuild.
>
> In practice there will always be problems that cannot be caught in an
> automated way.  I hope such breakages are rare, but from your message it
> sounds like there were many problems just this week-end?

If all the patches go to Debuggs (guix-patches) then using the commit
(format-patch --base=auto), the infrastructure could automatically
build, run tests, lint etc. then it eases the job of the reviewer and
the substitutes are available when the end-user pull.  The merge would
be done by hand --as today-- by the committer (pusher) to master.  Well,
Cuirass could track guix-patches instead of tracking master.

The issue of the rebuild-the-world accident could happen.  But it could
also happen now, with the current model.

It is a difficult topic but what is the feedback of such initiatives [1,2]?

1: https://patchwork.cbaines.net/project/guix-patches/list/
2: https://data.guix-patches.cbaines.net/

All the best,
simon


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-12 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-12  1:44 Pushed a fix (?) for ACL key location Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-12 11:14 ` Marius Bakke
2020-07-12 11:42 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-07-12 12:33   ` Marius Bakke
2020-07-12 14:21     ` zimoun [this message]
2020-07-12 16:27     ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-07-12 13:57   ` zimoun

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