Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

[Christopher Baines]

Sergio Pastor Pérez <sergio.pastorperez@outlook.es> writes:

> I cannot help you since I don't have commit access. But I want to thank
> you for your hard work, I'm currently using your package.
>
> I can only echo your frustration since I also have some patches ready to
> be merged that seem to be forgotten. As it has been discussed in the
> past, Guix is growing, but there are not enough hands to merge all the
> contributions that come through.
>
> We should try to come up with a solution that alleviates the burden on
> the maintainers. Given how often this issue arises, what if we try, as
> a collective, to suggest new mechanisms that would improve the
> situation?
>
> If I recall correctly, someone suggested having a development branch in
> which, once the QA passes, the patches get automatically merged. I know
> some people rose concerns about the slowness of the QA system for this
> to be an effective solution, and there is also the issue ordering the
> patch application.
>
> If the previous solution is ruled out, I would like to know the opinion
> of the Guix community on a voting system. I'm imagining a system where
> we reuse the mailing infrastructure we have, where each accepted mail in
> the guix devel mailing list has 1 vote for a given patch, that way we
> avoid multiple votes from the same entity and would allow people without
> commit access, but active on the Guix development, to participate. So,
> we could set up a threshold where if a patch gets 10 votes from
> non-committers the merge would be done; preferably automated, but if it's
> not possible, committers would know what is ready to be merged without
> effort and what the community wants.

We've had for many months a feature in QA [1] where people can mark
patches as being reviewed and looking like they're ready to be merged,
which is personally what I hope will mitigate this feeling of "I cannot
help you since I don't have commit access", because you can help, you
can review the patches and if you think they're ready to merge, you can
record that, and this does help highlight patches that are ready to
merge.

1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-02/msg00132.html

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