Re: Cleaning up branches on savannah

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello Mark,

Am Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 11:16:59AM -0400 schrieb Mark H Weaver:
> For IceCat updates, which almost always include security fixes, it is
> important to have very fast turnaround time on the test results.
> ci.guix.gnu.org normally starts building the new IceCat within an hour
> or so of the update being pushed to 'gnuzilla-updates', and usually
> finishes the build within 4-5 hours.  If, as you say, QA has not been
> keeping up lately, then I'm not sure it will be fast enough for this use
> case.
> 
> Also, I'd like to maximize the likelihood that substitutes for IceCat
> updates will be available *immediately* upon pushing them to 'master'.
> That's another motivation for pushing them to a temporary branch that
> ci.guix.gnu.org has been configured to build.

concerning the second paragraph, this will also be the case for going
through QA: It will build the package on the bordeaux build farm, the
substitutes of which are now activated by default on Guix installations.

For the first part, I would still recommend to go with cuirass on berlin,
as it has more build power, and apparently picks up the Icecat build
much faster.

Andreas