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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 70549@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Managing patches and branches, retrospective and futher changes?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:03:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZivQbNjJvVKtGAzE@pbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o79yvqtn.fsf@cbaines.net>

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 02:21:56PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> Almost a year ago, the branching strategy was changed [1][2].
> 
> 1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63459
> 2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-06/msg00024.html
> 
> I think these changes have gone OK, we've had ~27 [3] branches merged in
> this manor and I think looking back these changes have been
> helpful. Coordination and visibility has improved, and we've been able
> to build and test more prior to merging.

I'd like to just say that this (without checking the numbers) is almost
10x the number of merges we had previously with just the
core-updates/staging branch strategy.

> 3: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=%22Request+for+merging%22
> 
> There's still room for more improvement though. The current guidance is
> here [4], and I've sent a patch for improvements here [5].
> 
> 4: https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Managing-Patches-and-Branches.html
> 5: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70549
> 
> Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-26 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-24 13:21 Managing patches and branches, retrospective and futher changes? Christopher Baines
2024-04-25  7:29 ` Steve George
2024-04-25 18:28   ` [bug#70549] " Christopher Baines
2024-04-26 16:03 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2024-04-29 13:24 ` Andreas Enge
2024-04-29 14:42   ` Christopher Baines

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