On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:32:05AM +0100, Rutger Helling wrote:
> Here's an update for wayland-protocols. This should probably go in
> staging or core-updates.

The "branching and rebuilding strategy" is outlined here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html#Submitting-Patches

... and was introduced here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00933.html

In practice, we can't currently do topical update or staging branches
due to limitations with hydra.gnu.org, but I think we do plan to try
those again once we have more "horsepower".