From: Petter <petter@mykolab.ch>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
Subject: Re: We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:37:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170427183749.2c8b817e@mykolab.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmri7zce.fsf@gnu.org>
If I may make a suggestion, coming from a place of ignorance.
How about a stable branch that would be opt-in?
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:29:53 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
> > It’s a little unfortunate that packages are developed together with
> > everything else, because this means that there is no way for people to
> > opt out of breaking changes until the next release without also opting
> > out of getting any updates at all.
>
> It’s both a strength and a weakness I guess. The good thing is that we
> can make changes that affect everything at once. The bad thing is what
> you mention.
>
> We could use feature branches more, with the downside that they would
> probably get little additional testing, precisely because one would have
> to choose between features and packages.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-27 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-15 22:51 Services can now have a default value Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-15 23:11 ` ng0
2017-04-17 11:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-19 23:22 ` ng0
2017-04-20 8:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-20 9:09 ` ng0
2017-04-23 10:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-17 11:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-19 14:42 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-04-19 15:18 ` ng0
2017-04-19 21:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <8737d32abz.fsf@zancanaro.id.au>
2017-04-20 8:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-20 10:19 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-04-21 22:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-21 23:41 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-04-22 0:46 ` We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value] ng0
2017-04-22 7:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-22 10:08 ` ng0
2017-04-22 22:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-23 10:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-23 12:02 ` ng0
2017-04-27 13:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-27 16:37 ` Petter [this message]
2017-05-02 12:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-22 21:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-22 22:45 ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-23 11:52 ` ng0
2017-05-13 10:39 ` Services can now have a default value Carlo Zancanaro
2017-05-13 22:53 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-05-15 12:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-22 14:46 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-22 14:59 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-04-22 22:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
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