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* Ensuring we don't break user systems
@ 2018-07-29  9:40 Julien Lepiller
  2018-07-29  9:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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From: Julien Lepiller @ 2018-07-29  9:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hi guix!

I recently had an idea about how we should organize ourworkflow for post 1.0. The goal is to ensure that users can always update their system.

Currently, we push updatesto master and they may not build on other architectures or break dependant packages. This is bad because a security update might get blocked because an unrelated package now fails to build.

I'd like to propose the following policy:

We wouldcreate a new branch, stable, that would be used by guix pull. We would continue to push to master or other branches.

Once hydra finds it can build at least as many packages in master than stable, it would make master the new stable, hopefully once a day or so.

Security updates would be provided to users by a seéarate channel, to ensure important updates are delivered immediately to users.

Another possibility is to use a patch management system like gerrit with a similar policy.

WDYT?

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2018-07-29  9:40 Ensuring we don't break user systems Julien Lepiller
2018-07-29  9:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-07-29 16:58   ` Dan Partelly
2018-07-29 16:51 ` Dan Partelly
2018-07-29 17:28   ` Christopher Baines
2018-07-29 17:59     ` Dan Partelly
2018-07-30 21:16       ` Nils Gillmann
2018-07-30 21:24         ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-07-30 21:30           ` Nils Gillmann
2018-07-31  6:17         ` Dan Partelly
2018-07-31  7:45           ` Julien Lepiller
2018-07-29 17:51   ` Julien Lepiller
2018-07-29 18:07     ` Dan Partelly
2018-07-29 23:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-30  6:33   ` Dan Partelly
2018-07-30 10:58   ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-07-31 12:40     ` Pjotr Prins
2018-07-31 13:15       ` Clément Lassieur
2018-07-31 13:18         ` Julien Lepiller

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