Re: ‘staging’ branch is open!

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> The ‘staging’ branch is open!  Which means that changes with “between
> 300 and 1,800 rebuilds” (info "(guix) Submitting Patches") can go there;
> now’s the time to (re)send package updates in that ballpark.

Just to be clear, it was never closed :-).

> Incidentally, I was considering ungrafting things on that branch, even
> those that go beyond the 1,800 dependents limit, since this is almost
> always a safe change and ci.guix now has the capacity and stability
> needed for that.
>
> What do people think?
>
> I think we should aim for a freeze in one or two weeks, merging in three
> weeks, and resume work on the new release to be done sometime after the
> merge.
>
> Thoughts?

Seems like a fine plan.  Note that although we have the storage capacity
on paper, we still need to complete the Berlin config to make use of it
before we can afford to stress it with as many world rebuilds attempts
as we'd like.

Thanks,

Maxim