Hi Greg, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> skribis:
> Should we have a C++ team? I think project contributions regarding C > and C++ compilers, libraries, tools, and programs would benefit from a > tag to flag, discuss, and triage issues and a team branch to manage, > test, and pre-build patches. > > This team would of course be distinct from the core-packages team, > which manages the most fundamental packages and challenging updates. That makes a lot of sense to me. > Updates to C++ packages often result in a non-trivial number of > dependent package builds, which makes patch review challenging and > leads to overlooked or forgotten contributions and long-delayed > merges. Also, widely used Guix C++ packages are several versions and > many years out-of-date. A C++ team would help us to be more responsive > both to contributors and upstream releases while maintaining a stable > rolling-release and making efficient use of build farm compute and > storage. All for it. I feel bad when you and others contribute tricky C++ package updates and they remain in the patch queue for weeks or months. (Speaking of which, I hope you also get commit rights soon, which should help boost this team’s work.) Thanks for all the work so far and for the exciting perspective! Ludo’.
