Hi Felix,
Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> writes:
Hi Ian,
On Thu, Jun 27 2024, Ian Eure wrote:
The nss package updates frequently, around once a month. [...]
I'm
considering options to balance update frequency vs. huge
rebuilds.
Your plan sounds reasonable but my opinion is inconsequential.
Instead,
I'd like to point out that you are not alone:
Wouldn't you like it if two days a month were set aside to allow
uploads
that trigger large rebuilds? The approach would pool intensive
uploads
in the time domain rather than how we do it now in space, namely
branches.
I think this is probably a good idea, though the implementation
might be difficult to manage. I’m not sure where the patches
would go if not some short-lived branch, so we’d still likely have
the space complexity. A one-month timebox for large changes,
where they merge or get backed out at the end, seems like it could
be a reasonable way to break down some of the long-running
branches.
One thing we should be considerate of is users with limited
bandwidth. Even if Guix has the compute to build and bandwidth to
serve, not all of its users will.
Thanks,
— Ian
