Re: emacs-guix (upstream) needs more love: a survey of repositories, homepage and issues

[Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com>]

Hi Ludo'

Sorry for taking a while to send a reply!

On Monday, May 30th, 2022 at 8:33 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:


> Hello Kaelyn,
>
> Kaelyn kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com skribis:
>
> > > First, we need to cherry-pick relevant commits from gitlab.com. Any
> > > takers? If you Giovanni or anyone else is willing to help, we can grant
> > > commit access so we share the work. Another way to help is by listing
> > > commits that should be applied.
> > >
> > > Volunteers?
> >
> > I'd be happy to help with the efforts!
>
>
> Yay!
>
> > I just took a few minutes and checked both repos out into a single
> > working tree, and there aren't many commits unique to each
> > repository. The official savannah repo has 5 commits since they
> > diverged, with the 3 oldest looking like variations of the 6 oldest in
> > the gitlab repo. Likewise, not counting the 6 just mentioned, there
> > are 4 unique commits in the gitlab repo. Those 4 commits are:
> >
> > * c9aef52 - (gitlab/master, gitlab/HEAD) elisp/ui-package: Add 'guix-package-use-name-at-point' variable (12 months ago)<Alex Kost>
> > * e5ff0e5 - elisp/ui-package: Fix an error on package name read (12 months ago)<Alex Kost>
> > * 8ce6d21 - Rename 'guix-search-…' to 'guix-packages-…' commands (1 year, 3 months ago)<Alex Kost>
> > * fbc2bbc - elisp/ui-package: Use thing at point for 'guix-packages-by-name' command (1 year, 3 months ago)<Alex Kost>
>
>
> Awesome.
>
> Would you be willing to coordinate work on Emacs-Guix for some time?
> If so, I’m in favor of granting you commit access so you can first push
> these four commits, and eventually apply patches that are submitted or
> fix bugs here and there.
>
> If Giovanni or Théo wants to do that, that’s fine too. What we need is
> to make sure one of us/you can commit some time going forward to at
> least protect Emacs-Guix from bitrot, and ideally help improve it, as
> time permits.
>
> WDYT?

While my time can sometimes be a little spotty short-term, I am willing to coordinate work on Emacs-Guix and at least protect it from bitrot. Right now, I'm still fairly new to Emacs and am still working on my setup and learning & integrating things like using Emacs-Guix or M-x debbugs-gnu, but I also wish to both get more involved with Guix and improve my Emacs development and debugging skills. I'll also be happy to push those four commits once I work out my local build and testing (i.e. getting the tests to pass locally with a clean tree to see if my cherry-picking of the commits are the reason tests are failing.)

> Bug reports would still go to https://issues.guix.gnu.org, which you
>
> can access from the comfort of your Emacs with M-x debbugs-gnu. :-)

I really need to try that out! :)

Cheers,
Kaelyn

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.