Suhail Singh <suhailsingh...@gmail.com> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
[...] >> Besides, I agree with you Greg that we need more automation, in >> particular for package updates. Nixpkgs has an auto-update bot; we >> could just as well have a bot that roughly runs ‘guix refresh’ and >> submits patches/merge requests. I’m sure somebody will end up >> scratching this particular itch, it’s such an obvious thing to do. > > Where would such a bot run? Do we have an example of a bot that runs in > a similar context? Yes, there’s a bot periodically updating the guix-cran and guix-bioc channels: https://hpc.guix.info/channel/guix-cran https://hpc.guix.info/channel/guix-bioc Currently it’s a script running periodically on berlin.guix: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/modules/sysadmin/services.scm#n1335 Ludo’.