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From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Attila Lendvai , Suhail Singh , Simon Tournier , guix-devel Subject: Re: Automatically testing package updates In-Reply-To: <87r06l7vlm.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:55:49 +0100") References: <87iks2urmd.fsf@gnu.org> <87a5ddoq2r.fsf@gmail.com> <877c8e8dh1.fsf@gmail.com> <87wmge6tad.fsf@elephly.net> <87ldwu860j.fsf@gmail.com> <87r06l7vlm.fsf@elephly.net> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: Quintidi 25 Frimaire an 233 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9v?= =?utf-8?Q?olution=2C?= jour du Grillon X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:46:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87wmg1keul.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -7.81 X-Spam-Score: -7.81 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 5DB9880D3D X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-TUID: KL6IB40r/lkY Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Attila Lendvai writes: > >> sidenote: as a newcomer i found it rather off-putting that the bug >> tracker is full of random two-liner package updates, many long >> forgotten and even obsolete. > > This is exactly my point and why I think the bug tracker must contain > only *actionable* work that humans are meant to work on. As we're > trying to undo the damage of years of being overwhelmed by patches I'd > really like to keep the issue tracker for humans only. I wonder what level of human validation we=E2=80=99d want for =E2=80=9Ctriv= ial updates=E2=80=9D. In Nixpkgs, IIUC, a bot submits pull requests and a human being eventually clicks the merge button. Ludo=E2=80=99.