On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Simon Tournier wrote: > Sorry if my understanding is incorrect, but if we do not increase the > number of people with specific/dedicated/controlled write access, the > move to Codeberg is useless. Provocative on purpose. ;-)
There are other problems with our email workflow besides "not enough people are committers". Although I agree we should be creative about empowering more people, like with branch-based permissions. I hope you will take my years of experience, having committed >1400 patches for other people (the 4th highest, if we are counting) [0], as representing a valuable perspective. For me, the big problem with email is that resolved tickets don't get removed from my inbox. Currently, my guix-patches inbox has 7000 messages. And 520 for bug-guix. Since April 2024. That's not working for me as a reviewer, because a lot of them have already been resolved, but it takes real effort to figure that out and archive the messages. It's too hard to figure out what to pay attention to. Ultimately, it's just discouraging to sort through them, and I have other things to do with my life. This work has to be at least a little bit appealing. Sure, there could be ways to improve that... for 10+ years Guix has been improving our workflow with helper scripts and services, and that still haven't satisfied the Guix contributors... or we could try something new. [0] git shortlog --numbered --summary --group=trailer:Signed-off-by
