Jakub Kądziołka writes: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 09:22:31PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >> We should have a better way to poll branch status other than "read all >> messages on guix-devel" or "ask Marius on IRC". > > Ouch, sorry for that! I see two potential solutions: > > 1. Have a guix-devel-announce mailing list, to which we would post > things concerning all Guix developers. Actually we already have an underutilized 'info-guix' list. I suppose that can work. > 2. Configure the git server to reject pushes to frozen branches when > unless --force is used. It will be difficult for the server to distinguish between 'bug fixes' and 'huge rebuilds'. Not sure if the --force flag propagates to servers the way you are thinking of, but perhaps it can work (not a great habit though!). Also, we'd have to bother the Savannah admins every time we 'freeze' a branch. Another option could be to create a tracking bug with a special tag that can be displayed by issues.guix.gnu.org. It could also show any merge blockers such as to make it easier to contribute.