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Thu, 5 Dec 2024 01:23:07 -0800 (PST) From: Ricardo Wurmus To: Hilton Chain Cc: Simon Tournier , Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A8s?= , guix-devel Subject: Re: Automatically testing package updates In-Reply-To: <87o71qpn8i.wl-hako@ultrarare.space> (Hilton Chain's message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:06:53 +0800") References: <87iks2urmd.fsf@gnu.org> <87a5ddoq2r.fsf@gmail.com> <87o71qpn8i.wl-hako@ultrarare.space> User-Agent: mu4e 1.12.7; emacs 29.4 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:23:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87bjxq8ow8.fsf@elephly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-ZohoMailClient: External Received-SPF: pass client-ip=136.143.188.51; envelope-from=rekado@elephly.net; helo=sender4-of-o51.zoho.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list 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+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Queue-Id: ADC3F51639 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -9.75 X-Spam-Score: -9.75 X-TUID: KqTLHQLP38Ms Hilton Chain writes: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:20:53 +0800, > Efraim Flashner wrote: >> >> I'm now thinking about the easy-package -> hard-package learning curve >> for new contributors, and I'm not sure how we'd address that. > > I'm thinking about something like a wiki of packaging examples, where it starts > from a 'hello' package to explain basic concepts and (most importantly from my > observation) rules for synopses and descriptions etc., expanding to specific > cases for various build systems. Since we already have plenty of good examples, > the content can be quickly filled. The Cookbook has a packaging tutorial. It could get more tutorials of the kind you're describing. -- Ricardo