Hello Cayetano,
Cayetano Santos writes:
> Hi Guix,
>
> As mentioned previously, one of the online guix service I use the most
> is yhetil [1].
Glad to hear you find it useful.
> [...] find some way to know if this is a service we may rely on or not.
Should you expect me to continue to maintain it? Who knows. It's been
around since 2020, and I don't have any plans to shut it down, but it's
a public service that I volunteer my free time and money to provide. At
any point, I may decide I can't or don't want to continue doing so for
any number of reasons.
I'd suggest it comes down to your assessment of what the risk is of
relying on it and in particular how stuck you are if it disappears.
One of the benefits of public-inbox is that it makes it easy for people
to mirror [*]. I would be glad to see other people publish mirrors, but
at the very least people could privately keep a fairly up-to-date clone
of the underlying repos so that they could get something up again if
yhetil.org disappears.
[*] Here's a post where I demonstrate how to use grokmirror to mirror
all Guix-related inboxes from yhetil.org:
https://yhetil.org/guix/878scww903....@kyleam.com/
What to expect size-wise (these aren't freshly packed):
$ du -sh guix-*/git/* gwl/git/*
492M guix-bugs/git/0.git
223M guix-devel/git/0.git
481M guix-patches/git/1.git
2.1M guix-science/git/0.git
135M guix-user/git/0.git
1.2M gwl/git/0.git
As a side remark: I think this message stems from bug#76119 proposing to
mention yhetil.org in the Contributing section of the manual and a reply
saying (<https://yhetil.org/guix/87bjv7h2a3....@gmail.com>):
Without that knowledge, it just feels a little odd for the Guix
project to officially trust and recommend the use of this particular
online service.
But notice that the Contributing section already mentions public-inbox:
@samp{b4 am} sub-command, which is able to retrieve the complete
submission email thread from a public-inbox instance and add the Git
trailers found in replies to the commit patches.} line should be used to
sign off as a reviewer, meaning you have reviewed the change and that it
looks good to you:
And underneath it's yhetil.org that's being used:
guix/% git grep yhetil af4778c09c
af4778c09c:etc/git/gitconfig: linkmask = https://yhetil.org/guix/%s
af4778c09c:etc/git/gitconfig: linktrailermask =
https://yhetil.org/guix/%s
af4778c09c:etc/git/gitconfig: midmask = https://yhetil.org/guix/%s
So, if it doesn't feel odd to do that, I can't see why it'd feel odd to
mention yhetil.org by name.
