Re: A proposal for better quality in maintenance of packages by reducing scope

2021-03-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Léo, Léo Le Bouter skribis: > I would like to propose that we reduce the scope of the maintenance we > do in GNU Guix and establish a list of packages that we more or less > commit to maintaining because this is something that we can do and is > attainable, for example, we could remove deskto

Re: A proposal for better quality in maintenance of packages by reducing scope

2021-03-23 Thread Christopher Baines
Léo Le Bouter writes: > There's lots of packages in GNU Guix and maintaining all of them is > tedious, even if we have tooling, there's only so much we can do. > > I want to have a secure and reliable system, I would also like to only > depend on packages I know are easy to maintain for GNU Guix

Re: A proposal for better quality in maintenance of packages by reducing scope

2021-03-23 Thread david larsson
On 2021-03-23 16:00, Léo Le Bouter wrote: Hello! There's lots of packages in GNU Guix and maintaining all of them is tedious, even if we have tooling, there's only so much we can do. I want to have a secure and reliable system, I would also like to only depend on packages I know are easy to mai

A proposal for better quality in maintenance of packages by reducing scope

2021-03-23 Thread Léo Le Bouter
Hello! There's lots of packages in GNU Guix and maintaining all of them is tedious, even if we have tooling, there's only so much we can do. I want to have a secure and reliable system, I would also like to only depend on packages I know are easy to maintain for GNU Guix contributors. I would li