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From: Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>
To: "Sergio Pastor Pérez" <sergio.pastorperez@outlook.es>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:43:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6bi6g5a.fsf@meson> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PAXP251MB0348FCF488DA71284D05F70FF3822@PAXP251MB0348.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Hi Sergio,

Sergio Pastor Pérez <sergio.pastorperez@outlook.es> writes:

> Hello Ian.
>
> I cannot help you since I don't have commit access. But I want 
> to thank
> you for your hard work, I'm currently using your package.
>

Thank you for the kind words, they truly mean a lot to me.

Whatever the state of Guix proper, you can always find the current 
version of LibreWolf in my personal channel[1], though I don’t 
have a public substitute server, so long build times will await 
you if you choose this route.


> We should try to come up with a solution that alleviates the 
> burden on
> the maintainers. Given how often this issue arises, what if we 
> try, as
> a collective, to suggest new mechanisms that would improve the
> situation?
>
> If I recall correctly, someone suggested having a development 
> branch in
> which, once the QA passes, the patches get automatically 
> merged. I know
> some people rose concerns about the slowness of the QA system 
> for this
> to be an effective solution, and there is also the issue 
> ordering the
> patch application.
>
> If the previous solution is ruled out, I would like to know the 
> opinion
> of the Guix community on a voting system. I'm imagining a system 
> where
> we reuse the mailing infrastructure we have, where each accepted 
> mail in
> the guix devel mailing list has 1 vote for a given patch, that 
> way we
> avoid multiple votes from the same entity and would allow people 
> without
> commit access, but active on the Guix development, to 
> participate. So,
> we could set up a threshold where if a patch gets 10 votes from
> non-committers the merge would be done; preferably automated, 
> but if it's
> not possible, committers would know what is ready to be merged 
> without
> effort and what the community wants.
>

I’m not sure this would be effective, because the QA service is 
unreliable.  I regularly see patches which simply don’t get picked 
up by it, including many of my own.  At other times, it lags very 
far behind.  I don’t think it’s reliable enough to be in the 
critical path for anything.  Guix is supposed to be a 
rolling-release distro, so it feels strange to have a develop 
branch which moves even faster.

Thanks,

  — Ian


[1]: https://codeberg.org/ieure/atomized-guix


  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-17 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-17 16:44 Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf Ian Eure
2024-08-17 18:00 ` Sergio Pastor Pérez
2024-08-17 19:43   ` Ian Eure [this message]
2024-08-18  8:35   ` Christopher Baines
2024-08-18 16:50     ` Ian Eure
2024-08-19  1:53       ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-19  8:53       ` Christopher Baines
2024-08-19 23:14         ` Ian Eure
2024-09-12  1:01           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-08-19 17:01     ` Sergio Pastor Pérez
2024-08-18  8:37   ` Attila Lendvai
2024-08-18  9:07     ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2024-08-17 20:36 ` Ian Eure
2024-08-17 23:08 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-18  4:07   ` Ian Eure
2024-08-18 21:17     ` Tomas Volf
2024-08-21 20:54       ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-22 15:00         ` Ian Eure
2024-08-28 20:48           ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-28 23:15             ` Ian Eure
2024-08-29  7:30               ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2024-08-29 20:24                 ` [Browser-Team] " André Batista
2024-08-30 20:14                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-22 16:37         ` André Batista
2024-08-28 20:46           ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-30 20:18             ` Defining the role of teams Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-28 23:16           ` Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf Ian Eure
     [not found] <mailman.5970.1723926982.21382.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2024-08-18  0:11 ` Andy Tai
2024-08-18  0:48   ` Ian Eure

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