Re: Can we provide another UI for patches than just email ?

2023-09-16 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Saku, Saku Laesvuori writes: >> I'd like to be part of the solution, so Saku, I'd like to help >> write the putative scripts you talk about. The main difficulty I see is >> that they need to be configured to be able to send and receive email on >> the user's behalf. > > That could probably be

Re: hard dependency on Git? (was bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts)

2023-09-16 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > >> So given there's no technical reasons not to use libgit2, I'd use that >> and keep the closure size down. > > For the record, that’s a 6% increase: > > $ guix size guix | tail -1 > total: 633.0 MiB > $ guix size guix gi

Re: Can we provide another UI for patches than just email ?

2023-09-16 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Hi Simon, Am Donnerstag, dem 14.09.2023 um 19:48 +0200 schrieb Simon Tournier: > a.  … send an Email to guix-patc...@gnu.org #only once > b.  $ git config sendemail.to 12...@debbugs.gnu.org #only once > c.  $ git send-email --base=auto -v origin > > and the order is flipped: > >

Guix Survey (follow up on "How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?")

2023-09-16 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Guix, I haven't had enough time to read up on every topic that has been mentioned in the "How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?" discussion as at some point it got quite a lot to follow. At one point[0] there was a discussion on having a survey to get a better picture on

Re: Implementing the guix-dameon in Guile

2023-09-16 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Chris, Congrats on getting the grant! I'm sure it will lead to a lot of positive things. I tried it myself a couple years ago, for the exact same subject, without success. > I imagine the daemon could be structured as a set of actors (it’s really > my thing these days ;-)), with an eye on

Re: The already complicated (complex?) process for contributing.

2023-09-16 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Giovanni, On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 at 09:33, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > since I already replied you offline please forgive me for any > repetitions, but later I realized a better comment to your metaphore > (see below) could be useful to other people. Since your offlist comment is more or less ab

Re: The already complicated (complex?) process for contributing.

2023-09-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Simon, since I already replied you offline please forgive me for any repetitions, but later I realized a better comment to your metaphore (see below) could be useful to other people. Simon Tournier writes: [...] > On a side note, documentation is very fine but I do not read (or > study!?) t