Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

[Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>]

Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:

> Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> writes:
>
>> The initial patch to update the version to 127.x was submitted 
>> on June
>> 29th; updated to 128.x on July 17th; and I’ll be sending the 
>> patch
>> updating it to 129.x later today, after I’ve finished building 
>> and
>> testing it.
>
> Thank you for your continued commitment to this despite the lack 
> of
> timely review.
>

I appreciate your kind words; thank you.


>> I’m stuck in an impossible situation.  I can’t apply for 
>> committer access until
>> I have more accepted contributions, but can’t build those 
>> contributions unless
>> my patches are reviewed.  It’s frustrating and demoralizing.
>
> I can empathize.  I decided to take a step back from posting
> contributions earlier this year for similar reasons.  I am 
> hopeful this
> can improve in the (near) future.
>

I’m feeling very similarly, and have been biasing to maintaining 
my own channel lately.


>> A second, and smaller question, is: is there a mechanism to 
>> direct others’
>> contributions to LibreWolf to me for review, without 
>> subscribing to every patch
>> sent to Guix?  I have seen some patches, and participated, but 
>> I have to go look
>> for those, and it’d be more convenient if they were directed to 
>> me in the first
>> place.
>
> I believe the usual way of doing something like this is via 
> teams (see
> ./etc/teams.scm ).
>

I’m not sure whether/how well this mechanism works for 
non-committers.

Thanks,
  — Ian