Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

[Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>]

Hi, this is a sugestion on guix patches:

Other GNU/Linux distributions often have fixed maintainers (or
packagers) for specific packages.
While that model may not apply directly to the Guix project as anyone
can send in patches for anything in the git repo, maybe one thing the
Guix project can do is to recognize if someone has sent in patches for
specific projects many times in the past, then that means the person
has knowledge, interest, familiarity and expertise about this package
and the reviewers can spend minimal time of his/her future patches for
the same package(s).

Thus this creates kind of pseudo package maintainer in Guix, reducing
workload of reviewers and speeding up package update.

Guix can have a text file in the Guix repo recording say someone who
is "responsible" or is a "pseudo packager" for specific packages,
which the committers can refer to to allow quick processing of
patches.  This does not mean the person responsible for certain
package has git commit access but just to allow a quick path for patch
processing by the commiters of certain patches from the familiar
person.

Of course others can still send in patches for these packages already
with pseudo packagers.