Re: Branch (and team?) for mesa updates

[John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:09 PM, John Kehayias wrote:

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>
> I'll open a branch merge request issue later today as per new
> procedure for QA. Though I believe that only builds 2 branches, which
> is occupied at the moment. Or can someone set a separate build job
> specifically for mesa-updates, especially if we think it is a good
> idea to have this going forward?
>

Merging request for "mesa-updates" branch created:
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64369>

>> Do we want a "Mesa team" or something a bit larger? Not sure what
>> exactly, since "graphics" is perhaps too broad. Happy to help
>> spearhead the Mesa front for Guix (the very package that got me first
>> involved in the patching process).
>>
>
> This is still a good question I think, of how we want to have a
> team(s) to handle things like xorg, wayland, mesa, and related
> packages. They are a bit all over the place in terms of scope and what
> they touch. For now I'd like to go ahead with a regular mesa-updates
> branch since that sees regular releases and is pretty self-contained
> currently.
>
> Thanks!
> John