Re: Forge and build automation

[Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> WIth 29,000+ packages the nature of the project has changed from
>> adding new software to managing updates (what fraction of new packages
>> are rust or python dependencies?).
>
> … that’s the crux of the problem.  What works for our little channels
> mentioned above is insufficient for the main ‘guix’ channel.

Why does the main 'guix' channel have to contain the "entire world"?

> Besides, I agree with you Greg that we need more automation, in
> particular for package updates.  Nixpkgs has an auto-update bot; we
> could just as well have a bot that roughly runs ‘guix refresh’ and
> submits patches/merge requests.  I’m sure somebody will end up
> scratching this particular itch, it’s such an obvious thing to do.

Where would such a bot run?  Do we have an example of a bot that runs in
a similar context?

-- 
Suhail