Re: Tooling for branch workflows

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 01:39:05PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> the title says it all, I wish to share some conclusions from working on
> the core-updates merge. Clearly our tooling could be improved for the task;
> there was some flying by night without instruments, and in the end I
> merged the branch without being really able to tell how it compared
> to master... (You may also blame it partially on my lack of patience.)
> Having feature branches may or may not make things a bit easier, but it
> will definitely not solve the problems.

I have to agree with this sentiment. I merged the rust-team branch with
the gut-feeling that nothing new was broken, but I wasn't really sure
how to compare the two.

> This mail is also of course a bit politically sensitive: It may look like
> I am complaining about other people's work, who are volunteers and do what
> they can, without offering to work on the code myself. So as a preamble,
> let me express my gratitude to the few people who have been working
> tirelessly on our tooling and contributing to our infrastructure, without
> whom big code changes like we did on core-updates (and now on feature
> branches) would simply be impossible; their work is vital to the project
> and often not very visible. If I am critical, it is not to diminish their
> work, but to discuss about a positive path forward; and I hope more people
> will find the motivation to do infrastructure work, which I think will be
> decisive for the success of Guix (together with policy and organisational
> questions).

I too wish to thank everyone for all the work they have done. I would
especially like to thank those who work on cuirass and the Guix build
coordinator, neither of which I've worked on but which are fundamental
underpinnings of Guix.


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