Re: bug#76503: [GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > As for experimenting, I agree and I reiterate my invitation to 
> > send
> > trivial patches to <https://codeberg.org/civodul/guix> (or to
> > Guix-Science, Guix-Past, etc.).  I think this GCD’s discussion 
> > period is
> > the right time to give it a try as it can better inform 
> > discussions.
>
> Based on Andreas's observations in [1]:
>
> #+caption: <https://yhetil.org/guix/Z8rJyIIUR84pWdLS@jurong/>
> #+begin_quote
>   On the other hand, as soon as there is a patch series on 
>   issues, it also
>   becomes more or less unreadable; after 5 versions of a 6-patch 
>   series,
>   it becomes difficult to find the start of the current version 
>   and all
>   comments in between.
> #+end_quote
>
> It seems if we are basing our experimentations on only "trivial 
> patches"
> that are sent to <https://codeberg.org/civodul/guix>, we may not 
> be
> observing the instances where a forge-style review process 
> actually
> struggles; our conclusions may be flawed.

We have had non-trivial patches with a number of revisions on the
guix-science channel.

Examples:

https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-science/pulls/59
https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-science/pulls/75

--
Ricardo