Re: Creating a C/C++ team?

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Greg,

Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com> skribis:

> Should we have a C++ team? I think project contributions regarding C
> and C++ compilers, libraries, tools, and programs would benefit from a
> tag to flag, discuss, and triage issues and a team branch to manage,
> test, and pre-build patches.
>
> This team would of course be distinct from the core-packages team,
> which manages the most fundamental packages and challenging updates.

That makes a lot of sense to me.

> Updates to C++ packages often result in a non-trivial number of
> dependent package builds, which makes patch review challenging and
> leads to overlooked or forgotten contributions and long-delayed
> merges. Also, widely used Guix C++ packages are several versions and
> many years out-of-date. A C++ team would help us to be more responsive
> both to contributors and upstream releases while maintaining a stable
> rolling-release and making efficient use of build farm compute and
> storage.

All for it.  I feel bad when you and others contribute tricky C++
package updates and they remain in the patch queue for weeks or months.

(Speaking of which, I hope you also get commit rights soon, which should
help boost this team’s work.)

Thanks for all the work so far and for the exciting perspective!

Ludo’.