From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value] Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:13:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpabsa71.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87shl9qo7h.fsf@gnu.org> <877f2go3wn.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> <877f2gksbs.fsf@gnu.org> <8737d32abz.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> <87bmrr4ghh.fsf@gnu.org> <874lxjnzyx.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> <87bmrp8lk6.fsf@gnu.org> <8737d1nxbd.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> <20170422004634.4oedqmsebpctjqk4@abyayala> <878tmsud8m.fsf@elephly.net> <20170422100811.mr3t5rgh6n44xvdk@abyayala> <87pog4gihe.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2EWx-0003Rx-Ix for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 06:14:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2EWw-0005C0-D4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 06:14:11 -0400 In-reply-to: <87pog4gihe.fsf@gnu.org> 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+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel , Carlo Zancanaro Ludovic Courtès writes: > As for posting the change before applying it, I should do more of that. > I’ve taken the bad habit of pushing what I consider as “simple” changes > directly to the repo, but perhaps the criteria should be reconsidered. > :-) I think it’s fine to push simple changes directly. There hasn’t been a single instance when you pushed something where I thought that it shouldn’t have been pushed. Between releases we are free to change things; they only have to be mentioned in the ChangeLog for the next release. ABI breakage can get a little annoying if one doesn’t know about it and the compilation fails with unclear errors. It’s a little unfortunate that packages are developed together with everything else, because this means that there is no way for people to opt out of breaking changes until the next release without also opting out of getting any updates at all. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net