Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Liliana Marie Prikler writes: [...] >> I tried https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/65428/patch-set/1 but I get >> a blank page: any example plz? > That's a mumi bug IIUC, it works for M > 1. For M = 1, use patch-set > without /M. OK, thanks! -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures si

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Attila Lendvai
> That said, I understand that some (many?) users are not comfortable with > CLI interfaces and prefers a GUI interface (web UI is the same), but > there is no reason to increase the reviewers cognitive overhead by > introducing an inefficient web based patch management workflow just to > address a

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 08:39:17AM + schrieb Attila Lendvai: > just now i wanted to take a look at mumi's sources, but the link in the > manual (https://git.elephly.net/gitweb.cgi?p=software/mumi.git) times out. There is a mumi package in guix, and it gives the source location as https://g

Re: SSSD, Kerberized NFSv4 and Bacula

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, just a tiny comment to one of your points: Am Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 07:55:05PM + schrieb Martin Baulig: > 1. GNU Guix is currently using nfs-utils 2.4.3, whereas 2.6.3 is currently > the > latest version. We don't need to upgrade, but I would like to backport > one > change,

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 02:22:01AM +0200 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: > Writing the metadata into the commit messages is annoying. It totally should > be automated, especially since Scheme has pretty simple syntax (so it should > be easy to write such a thing/famous-last-words). It should just figu

commit message helpers (was Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?)

2023-08-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, Andreas Enge writes: > Am Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 02:22:01AM +0200 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: >> Writing the metadata into the commit messages is annoying. It totally should >> be automated, especially since Scheme has pretty simple syntax (so it should >> be easy to write such a thing/fam

Re: SSSD, Kerberized NFSv4 and Bacula

2023-08-30 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 2:38 AM Andreas Enge wrote: > > Is there a drawback to updating? As a heavy user of nfs-utils, I'd be happy to cooperate or assist with testing any proposed updates. We can add them to my custom channel for testing. [1] Kind regards Felix [1] https://codeberg.org/le

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
Summary of my conclusions: 1. We should use sourcehut or continue to improve mumi    - QA status should be visable from a patch's page    - It should be possible to interact with the issue through the page 2. We should create scripts/sub-commands to lift contribution activities into    higher-

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Katherine, thanks for your summary, which contains many points I would agree with and actionable items (disclaimer: I do not promise to act on them). Am Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 10:11:02AM -0600 schrieb Katherine Cox-Buday: > Here's my understanding of the process to contribute a patch: My pro

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread MSavoritias
Yep completely agree with all of this. Personally I dont think its necessery to move to sourcehut but from the discussions I saw debbugs does seem to become a burden the more time passes on. One of the weirdest things for me in guix is how its based on scheme which is designed to be hacked in pl