Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

[Suhail Singh]

Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> writes:

> The initial patch to update the version to 127.x was submitted on June
> 29th; updated to 128.x on July 17th; and I’ll be sending the patch
> updating it to 129.x later today, after I’ve finished building and
> testing it.

Thank you for your continued commitment to this despite the lack of
timely review.

> I’m stuck in an impossible situation.  I can’t apply for committer access 
> until
> I have more accepted contributions, but can’t build those contributions unless
> my patches are reviewed.  It’s frustrating and demoralizing.

I can empathize.  I decided to take a step back from posting
contributions earlier this year for similar reasons.  I am hopeful this
can improve in the (near) future.

> A second, and smaller question, is: is there a mechanism to direct others’
> contributions to LibreWolf to me for review, without subscribing to every 
> patch
> sent to Guix?  I have seen some patches, and participated, but I have to go 
> look
> for those, and it’d be more convenient if they were directed to me in the 
> first
> place.

I believe the usual way of doing something like this is via teams (see
./etc/teams.scm ).

-- 
Suhail