From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Feedback, ideas, discussion: tracking patches, discussions, bugs. Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 02:27:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20160902002755.GA30382@jocasta.intra> References: <57B1AD4D.2080907@goebel-consult.de> <20160815153059.7c8201e6@scratchpost.org> <87h9am5aco.fsf@gmail.com> <57B2BEDA.2020202@goebel-consult.de> <874m6kbyg4.fsf@gmail.com> <57B5A049.6070206@goebel-consult.de> <87wpiwruyd.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87inuf27h7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfcKx-00024J-ED for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:28:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfcKt-0005w5-0a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:28:03 -0400 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:40367 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfcKs-0005ue-OP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:27:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87inuf27h7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:19:00AM +0000, ng0 wrote: I begin to suspect that what I want has not been written, like in several other cases I ran into in the last years. =20 I suspect it is more a case of not being able to agree on one. I have found, in the past, that aegis is a great tool for managing the kind= of work we do. Amongst other things, code review and tests are built into the design - and not tagged on as an afterthought. And it is designed to ensure an "always works" policy. A real "continuous integration" tool, which is a term which is banded about so much these days, but rarely actually done. Unfortunately, aegis is difficult to introduce to a project - not for techn= ical=20 reasons - but social ones. My attempts have often resulted in people compl= aining that the thing is "defective" because it won't allow them to do what they w= ant (ie commit=20 without review/build/test). J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlfIx4sACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OMDQCfUTYbkn3u5lodQCzqpfn2H289 3h4An2+y69ZkoTU9m88MdxQLbcJZwbkd =nSkP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--