Hi! My 2¢ on this… As a committer & reviewer, I love that I can just go to <https://qa.guix.gnu.org/patches>, pick one of the patch series with a green tick, and have the assurance that the resource-intensive work is already done. That makes a big difference!
As someone who submits patches, I realize the delay can be off-putting. For the hwloc upgrade I recently submitted, I got valuable feedback pointing at actual issues, but that was about a week later. Then I had to switch contexts again to adjust the patch accordingly. I guess that, to a large extent, that’s scheduling and resource issue. Happy to discuss that in the coming days in Brussels! Ludo’.
