emacs-guix (upstream) needs more love: a survey of repositories, homepage and issues

[Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>]

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Hi all!

Executive summary: we should agree with Alex Kost to continue
development on the one and only one official package repo, web page
/and/ bug report (and dismiss the old ones, converting them read-only of
necessary, with a note on the old pages) system because we now have two
/diverging/ packages with the very same name and two (three?) different
bug reporting platforms... and that's very confusing.

AFAIU since 2021-01-11 [1] the new official home of emacs-guix is on
Savannah as a Guix sub-project [2]; Alex Kost agreed [3] and told us
that:

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 As for me, I will continue to use my version of Emacs-Guix and to adjust
 it for my needs.

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and that's what he is doing (see below), so now "officially" we have
/two/ packages named emacs-guix: the official one at Savannah and the
"personal" one maintained by Alex.

The official version is hosted here:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/emacs-guix.git

but this is /not/ what is packaged in Guix now: we are packaging the
"personal" Alex version since 2021-05-01 (commit 57681f1640) since I've
done my little research (grepping for emacs-guix in commit message) and
found this changes in the URL of the origin (list in reverse timeline
order):

* 399e3ee7b7 (gnu: emacs-guix: Update to 0.5.2.5-c9aef52.) dated Thu Aug
  26 21:52:49 2021 (current) contains this diff:

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                 (uri (git-reference
-                      ;; TODO: Use the official version when it has a new home
-                      (url "https://github.com/alezost/guix.el")
+                      (url "https://gitlab.com/emacs-guix/emacs-guix.git")

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* 57681f1640 (gnu: emacs-guix: Update to 0.5.2-4.8ce6d21.) dated Sat May
  1 15:56:41 2021 contains this diff:

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                       ;; TODO: Use the official version when it has a new home
-                      (url "https://github.com/jsoo1/guix.el")
+                      (url "https://github.com/alezost/guix.el")

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* f98e3adcd5 (gnu: emacs-guix: Update to 0.5.2.3-a694fdb.) dated Sat Dec
  12 20:56:46 2020 contains this diff:

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-                      (url "https://gitlab.com/emacs-guix/emacs-guix")
+                      ;; TODO: Use the official version when it has a new home
+                      (url "https://github.com/jsoo1/guix.el")

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Looking at the commit log summary on the web, the officlal and Alex
repositories have diverged meanwhile, with different commits on both;
the official one have two new commits from you Ludo' (that's why I'm
directly messaging you Ludo'... you (and others) are probably using the
official version /not/ installed from Guix upstream ;-) ).

Also, the official (personal ?) web site for emacs-guix is
https://emacs-guix.gitlab.io/website/; in the home page we read: «Source
code of Emacs-Guix: https://gitlab.com/emacs-guix/emacs-guix»

Also, the "official" (personal ?) home page references to MELPA as one
of the install method, and on MELPA we have https://melpa.org/#/guix
referencing

  https://github.com/alezost/guix.el/tree/c9aef52121b458297e70bb50f49f7276b4a8d759

for the source code.  Fortunately the GitLab and GitHub remotes are kept
in sync (by Alex I guess) so we non not have a third repo :-)

Also, "official" web page contains a manual
https://emacs-guix.gitlab.io/website/manual/latest/emacs-guix.html
that is /not/ obtained using the official repo (AFAIU the manual still
have the same content, anyway)

Also, the "personal" issues (/and/ merge requests) are here:
https://gitlab.com/emacs-guix/emacs-guix/-/issues /and/ here:
https://github.com/alezost/guix.el/issues and...

...they are not (obviously) in sync, so users now have to search on tho
different platforms (three considering guix-devel) for past _upstream_
bug reports; AFAIK we don't even have an official bug reporting mailing
list on gnu.org (is it supposed to be guix-bugs?)

So now we have an official emacs-guix on Savannah (lacking an official
web page and a bug-report mailing list) and the "personal" version of
emacs-guix on a different "personal" reporitory hosted on two remotes:
one on GitLab, referenced in the home page, and one on GitHub,
referenced in the MELPA project page.

IMHO we should definitely fix this situation.

Thanks!  Gio'


[1] Message id:871rer5xxv.fsf@asu.edu

[2] Message id:87bldu43ta.fsf@asu.edu (same thread of the above message)

[3] Message id:87v9cum99w.fsf@gmail.com

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Giovanni Biscuolo

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