From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re>
Subject: Re: best practise between git-fetch vs url-fetch?
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 23:17:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7w3u33l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2005250026420.5735@marsh.hcoop.net> (Jack Hill's message of "Mon, 25 May 2020 00:54:25 -0400 (EDT)")
Hi,
Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:
> On Sun, 24 May 2020, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> […]
>
>>> Another improvement we could make here is improving the message about
>>> Software Heritage in guix lint. Most of the other messages it emits
>>> are things that the author of a package should consider improving. If
>>> the Software Heritage message is less actionable, let's make that
>>> clearer so that people don't think there is a problem with their
>>> package definition.
>>
>> What message would you suggest?
>
> How about expanding section 7.7 "Invoking Guix Lint" in the manual to
> include a paragraph of advice in the explanation for each checker. For
> example, the advice could be could be "change the source to use
> git-fetch" for "source-unstable-tarball", "exercise judgment on the
> long-term availability of software sources. We think that code hosted
> on the GNU ftp servers will be around for a long time, but code on
> people's personal websites may not be. The greater the risk of the
> software disappearing, the more important is is to use git-fetch in
> sources so we can trigger archiving at Software Heritage" for
> "archival", and "double check whether these inputs really should be
> native [link to appropriate section of the manual]. If they really
> need to be, leave a comment in the code briefly explaining why to help
> future contributors" for "inputs-should-be-native".
Regarding the ‘archival’ checker, the manual explains what’s at stake
and what it does:
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-lint.html
I feel like there’s little room for improvement here.
Ludo’.
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[not found] ` <20200306091525.E8A1621163@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-03-06 14:37 ` 01/02: gnu: fmt: Use HTTPS and git-fetch Marius Bakke
2020-03-06 15:07 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-06 17:40 ` Marius Bakke
2020-03-07 7:46 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-07 11:37 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-11 14:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-11 14:54 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-13 1:08 ` best practise between git-fetch vs url-fetch? zimoun
2020-05-13 8:24 ` Brice Waegeneire
2020-05-13 18:07 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-05-14 16:16 ` Jack Hill
2020-05-24 20:04 ` Josh Marshall
2020-05-24 20:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-25 4:54 ` Jack Hill
2020-05-25 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-05-26 2:05 ` Jack Hill
2020-05-13 17:13 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-24 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-26 11:41 ` zimoun
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