Hi, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:57:50AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> >> > Following discussions on IRC, I’ve created a new ‘ungrafting’ branch >> > that does nothing but ungraft things. >> > >> > The rationale is that grafts incur additional overhead when installing >> > things (the time to create those grafts), so it’s good to clean them up >> > once in a while. Ungrafting in a dedicated branch means we know the >> > branch is “safe”, unlike more exploratory branches like ‘staging’ and >> > ‘core-updates’. >> > >> > The plan is to start building it later today, and to hopefully be done >> > in a week or so. >> >> This is a good initiative, but it seems to have stalled. Is there a >> reason that it has not yet been merged into 'master'? > > The ungrafting branch was merged into the staging branch. Unfortunately, > the staging branch is moving very slowly. I perceive a lack of > interest in working on it :/ Apologies for not contributing so far, this month is busy for me. I think the slow feedback loop with ci.guix is one of the main reasons people don’t contribute much. Perhaps the whole process is also unclear to people who’re not seasoned contributors? > I think that the ungrafting branch should have been kept separate and > merged into master quickly. Yes, that was the goal, but again, ci.guix got in the way by not providing quick feedback. Then there were holidays, and then I was busy with other things, as I guess is the case with the other people who previously looked into it. My assumption was that an ungrafting branch would be easy to handle: trivial changes, no breakage. But it’s not that simple: we met actual breakage (Marius fixed non-trivial things), and again, the feedback loop was too slow. Ludo’.
