On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:51:38PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > In > <https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/ELIXIR.org#the-gnu-guix-dance-of-getting-packages-accepted>, > you already identified exactly what we were going to say. :-) > > Namely, why are patches applied in a build phase rather than in > ‘origin’, why is such and such test disabled (one sentence is usually > enough), what happens if we set ‘HOME’ like Ben suggests, etc. > > What should we do? :-)
I think I have covered that both in my writeup and in my response to Ben. I think this work should be accepted as is. I think this is probably the last package I am contributing to main line. Never liked dancing that much ;) But seriously, we should find other ways to encourage people. I wonder how many packages are out there that never find their way into guix or much too late. I wonder how much duplicate work is going on because of our dance requirement. If it this hard *with* my experience in packaging, how hard do you think it is for people *without* experience. I know Dennis, for example, is sitting on a heap of opencl packages which are incredibly useful to many people. I believe we have to change our ways. Pj.
