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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pier-Hugues Pellerin <ph@heykimo.com>
Cc: GNU Guix maintainers <guix-maintainers@gnu.org>,  guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 21:42:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d5xilf1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wndy6af2.fsf@heykimo.com> (Pier-Hugues Pellerin's message of "Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:32:42 -0400")

Hi,

Pier-Hugues Pellerin <ph@heykimo.com> skribis:

> As a new-new Guix user, I did find the review process or the time it
> takes really long.
> Maybe I've tackle too complex updates[0], I don't know but I don't
> have a clear path how to push it.

Yeah.  :-/

The long delays are mostly due to the lack of reviewers, but also, as
you point out, the more “complex” a patch series is, the more time it’ll
take before it’s reviewed (because it entails more work).

> Also, I don't want to say that one workflow is superior to the other
> but one thing that shines with theses forge
> is the automation and the simplicity to add tooling on pull request to
> reduce the burden to the reviewer:
>
> - linting
> - checks
> - commits log formatting check
> - CI jobs
> - codeowner assignment
> - build packages (partial or complete rebuild the world if needed)
> - license check
> - notification for stable pull request.

Yeah, I think there’s consensus on this.  :-)

> All theses are useful quality of life improvement for reviewers and
> reduce some of the friction and remove some of the
> non glamourous-task. Maybe it could be added to Mumi? Maybe a bot like
> Ofborg in NixOS could take care of some of the operation.

Yup.

> I haven't watched Arun presentation, I will search the list if the
> recording is up somewhere.

It’s right here:

  https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/online-guix-days-2022-announcement-2/

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-03 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-02 15:10 On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-02 20:22 ` Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-03 19:37   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-03 21:17     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-07  7:08     ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-07 15:11       ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-08 11:39         ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-08 21:10           ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-20 12:53         ` Hartmut Goebel
2022-06-21 15:44           ` zimoun
2022-06-22  9:19             ` Munyoki Kilyungi
2022-06-02 20:32 ` Pier-Hugues Pellerin
2022-06-03 19:42   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-06-02 21:35 ` Luis Felipe
2022-06-03  8:22   ` Feed on specific topic (public-inbox?) zimoun
2022-06-03 10:51     ` zimoun
2022-06-06 12:11 ` On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy Arun Isaac
2022-06-06 21:43   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-07  6:44     ` zimoun
2022-06-08  9:30       ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-14 12:24         ` zimoun
2022-06-15  7:01           ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-15  9:19             ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-19  6:55             ` Paul Jewell
2022-06-20 12:11               ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-15 15:11           ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-08 10:54     ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-09 19:55     ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-08  9:49   ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-09 19:50     ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-10 12:27       ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-10 15:03         ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-10 16:10           ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-10 16:26           ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-10 15:03         ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-11  4:13         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2022-06-11  9:37           ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-14 11:54           ` zimoun
2022-06-14 15:54             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-15  6:46               ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-13 12:19         ` Arun Isaac
     [not found] <mailman.12124.1654864076.1231.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2022-06-12  8:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-12  9:42   ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-12 13:10     ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-13  9:34       ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-13 10:48         ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-13 14:21           ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-12  8:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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