Re: Help! I messed up guix-past

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Hi Simon,

> Indeed, we screwed up!  Because we have not checked that all committers
> had been aware of this change.

It's worse: I wasn't even aware of being a committer before all of this
mess. I had started preparing my patches as I do for Guix, and then I
looked for contributor instructions. Didn't find any, so I tried the
standard Gitlab merge request workflow, given that I have an account
on the forge. Then I discovered that my account doesn't allow forks, and
that I was supposed to use another workflow doing merge requests from a
branch. That produced a merge request assigned to myself, which isn't
really useful. Up to that point, I was convinced that I needed someone
else to validate my patches, as for Guix.

> remove the problematic unsigned commit.  Maybe you can do it yourself,
> push force to go back at ecfb8af08eb8aa7d7b6a4b1edcc5fb1e177fa214.

As Ricardo said, force push isn't considered good behavior normally.
But if everyone agrees that it's the best way out, I'd be happy to do
it.

> Then ask to one of authenticated people to add your GPG key.

I'd prefer not to. I'd probably start my own channel instead. Or
maintain an unauthenticated fork of guix-past. My goal is to get GPG out
of my life. It's a major source of pain.

Cheers,
  Konrad