From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: GHM debriefing Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:48:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87eg5769n9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beLzD-0004eA-Ry for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:48:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beLz8-00052j-5X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:48:22 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::22d]:34994) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beLz6-00052G-TI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:48:18 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id j12so85003738ywb.2 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 05:48:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87eg5769n9.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel > Slides online, and hopefully videos will follow: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/help/#talks Nice slides! > On that topic, I had an interesting discussion with Nicolas Petton of > Emacs about patch tracking. Nicolas explained that Gitlab (free > software) doesn=E2=80=99t have some of the technical defects that GitHub = has; in > particular it can rebase instead of merging, thereby helping preserve a > linear history, and it can be dealt with =E2=80=9Cmostly=E2=80=9D by emai= l. Perhaps we > could try running an instance and see what it=E2=80=99s like. Calling it a technical defect is a little harsh... ;-) Gitlab is going to b= e an improvement over the existing state of affairs. Just spent an hour fixing the u-boot [0] patch manually to apply to a fresh tree. (Line wrapping most= ly, removing some hunks and adding a newline at the end) [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01414.html