Re: ‘core-updates’ is gone; long live ‘core-packages-team’!

[Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>]

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Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

> Christopher Baines writes:
>
> [cc: Efraim]
>
>> Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Maxim Cournoyer writes:
>>>
>>>> Sorry for reviving a 14 weeks old thread, I'm still catching up
>>>> post-move :-).
>>>
>>> Ah that explains why I missed this...
>>>
>>>> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
> [..]
>>> We've been seeing a regular stream of `squash' commits fixing our and
>>> eachother's patches and I'm keeping `core-packages-team' rebased
>>> regularly and hope that we don't need to merge it once it's ready, but
>>> can just push the final rebase.
>>
>> I think what you're doing is fine. the only thing I'd suggest to change
>> is regarding branch naming. This isn't documented, but
>> data.qa.guix.gnu.org (and QA) ignore branches where the name begins with
>> wip-.
>>
>> So if as you say this branch is currently being worked on, but not quite
>> ready to be merged, then I'd suggest naming it as wip-core-packages-team
>> (or anything else beginning with wip-). That way, the data service will
>> ignore it and can spend it's time looking at other branches/patch
>> series.
>
> Thanks, that's good to know/be reminded of.  However...this advise comes
> a bit [too] late as I believe it's about time the build farm would have
> a look at `core-packages-team', WYDT Efraim?.
>
> So if `core-packages-team' is already being built, where can I see/use
> the result[s] of that?  Up till now I've been doing all builds myself
> and haven't seen any substitutes?

data.qa.guix.gnu.org has been processing it, you can see a few revisions
here [1], but unfortunately nothing more than that has been
happening. When the request to merge issue is created and it's at the
front of the queue, QA should start submitting builds for the branch.

1: https://data.qa.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/core-packages-team

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