On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 2:06 PM Gabriel Wicki <[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy y'all! > > I've sat down and bashed out the missing pieces to create a package > update bot¹. It is highly experimental and still in a pre-productive > proof-of-concept phase—but it works. > > It clones (or pulls) the Guix repo, builds it, attempts to update a > package, builds that package, commits and pushes to a PR.
This is the PR? There exists a template for updated packages. ;; Push Pull Request (with-directory-excursion SOURCE-TREE (invoke/log "git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master" (string-append "-o topic=update-" pkg-name) "-o description=\"greetings from the auto-upgrade bot ;)\""))) > The idea is to > > 1) have it do its job for sets of packages independently and around the > clock, > > 2) report if it encounters issues (either to relevant teams, > individuals or even as Issues on our codeberg) and > > 3) relieve us of the simplest of all recurring jobs we encounter. > > Necessary information to try it out (don't forget to pass `-T`) should > be available in the README. Let's be extremely careful to not spam and overwhelm the project with bot slop. > This announcement should primarily prevent others from doing duplicate > work in a similar direction. If this sparks your interest, do feel > invited to collaborate in whatever form suits you best. Please let me > know if you have any remarks, pointers or other pieces of potentially > useful information for this venture. > > I hope to be able to present a version that runs more-or-less reliably > and reports whenever issues occur soon. > > > I would like to thank the Free Silicon Foundation for funding this > development. > > Enjoy! > gabriel / gabber > > ¹ https://codeberg.org/gabber/GGABS.git
