Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-10 Thread Thiago Jung Bauermann
Hello, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > Arun Isaac writes: > >> - We have strict conventions for commit messages. Our commit message >> Changelog is a strange dated practice from the time before good >> version control systems. I can live with it, but not everyone likes >> it. Let's just say

Set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1 by default

2022-06-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
So, guix sets SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1 by default in guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm, which is great! This allows guix packages in many cases to build packages reproducibly, with a curious side-effect that takes us all back to the early 70s in some corner-cases (or even late 60s, dependent on timezone)

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-10 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Efraim Flashner writes: [...] > I'm not using emacs but I've found etc/committer.scm to be quite > helpful, and I'll often rework parts of my workflow so that I can run > :!etc/committer.scm from within vim. uh thanks! I didn't know about committer.scm please is there some documentation about

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-10 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Efraim Flashner writes: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 02:27:44PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: [...] >> I just hope this requirement is refraining people to contribute and to >> review patches. > > I'll reword this as "I just hope this requirement isn't preventing > people from contributing and r

Re: Release v1.4?

2022-06-10 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hello everyone, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Thanks for the heads-up! I think merging ‘staging’ should be > top-priority. People are welcome to upgrade/reconfigure from it with: I'm currently running on staging with no bugs to report (x86_64-linux)! Should we also make use of the point release

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-10 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 02:27:44PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Hi Arun, > > thank you for your detailed analysis! > <..snip..> > I just hope this requirement is refraining people to contribute and to > review patches. I'll reword this as "I just hope this requirement isn't preventing peopl

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-10 Thread Maxime Devos
Giovanni Biscuolo schreef op vr 10-06-2022 om 14:27 [+0200]: > > - Our synopses and descriptions are not casually copy-pasted from > the > >    project website. We try to rewrite and improve on them if > necessary. > > AFAIK similar requirements are "enforced" by all other distributions They aren

Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

2022-06-10 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Arun, thank you for your detailed analysis! Arun Isaac writes: [...] > I meant that Guix has very high coding/packaging standards in the > following senses: > > - We prefer to not bundle dependencies. Tracking out bundled > dependencies, git submodules, etc. and figuring out how to rewire

Re: Merging ‘staging’?

2022-06-10 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 11:24:22PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hey Efraim, > > Efraim Flashner skribis: > > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 11:17:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Ludovic Courtès skribis: > >> > >> ‘guix weather -s i686-linux’ says 89% (which is underestimat