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

2023-09-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Csepp writes: > Mumi currently fails at its main function of being a search engine for > issues. I can't even find my own messages with keyword searches, > because for some reason Mumi connects each words with a logical or and > doesn't rank search results based on how many hits there are, not

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

2023-09-03 Thread paul
Hello Ricardo, On 9/3/23 09:36, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Mumi commit bda10fa1b37fed8ea313ea8ad49fa6146e65b4c0 changed the AND to the Xapian default of OR. Here’s the rationale from the commit message: xapian: Do not override the default OR implicit query operator. An implicit AND opera

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

2023-09-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
paul writes: >> Please go ahead and package the rest of Sourcehut, so we can host it and >> finally forget about Mumi and Debbugs. > > Again, this is not a competition between Sourcehut and Mumi. This is a > discussion between adults that care very much about the same > philosophical and politi

Re: package definition question: referring to source files of another package?

2023-09-03 Thread Attila Lendvai
> In some scenarios package A may refer to source files in package B. depending on where and what you need, you can do something like this in a GEXP context: (define (upstream-file relative-path) (let ((git-origin (let ((commit "v0.13.2")) (origin (method git-f

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

2023-09-03 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi all, On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 3:35 AM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > I won’t contribute to Mumi any more. Giving it up doesn’t hurt my > feelings. I’d be glad to see it gone. For what it's worth, I like Mumi. One day, I hope to help offer Scheme diffs there. Perhaps it will take just a pull from

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

2023-09-03 Thread Imran Iqbal
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 01:42:15PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Hi, > > interesting thread: thank you very much to all for the comments and > tips! Seconded, this has been a great thread to read through. > For email based patch workflow one and two things are indispensable: a > mailbox and a

Building from git

2023-09-03 Thread Nicolas Débonnaire
Hello, I would like to add a package to guix and send a patch but I'm facing problems following the chapter "22.1 Building from git" What I've done so far: git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git git fetch origin keyring:keyring guix git authenticate 9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddc

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

2023-09-03 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
Hi, > I think this is the biggest hurdle. A lot of folks are using gmail and > its web based UI and it is just plain awful. I have made the switch to > using neomutt (and isync + notmuch + mstmp) and it has made emails a joy > to use and work with. I use protonmail and they don't provide smtp acc

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

2023-09-03 Thread Csepp
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > paul writes: > >>> Please go ahead and package the rest of Sourcehut, so we can host it and >>> finally forget about Mumi and Debbugs. >> >> Again, this is not a competition between Sourcehut and Mumi. This is a >> discussion between adults that care very much about th

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

2023-09-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Csepp writes: > I'll try to pick up the Sourcehut > packaging, now that I know there is a chance it would be accepted. Excellent. Thank you! I started work on the issue tracker a while ago, but only had enough time for the first two packages which are in gnu/packages/sourcehut.scm. -- Rica

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

2023-09-03 Thread indieterminacy
On 03-09-2023 19:45, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: Hi, I think this is the biggest hurdle. A lot of folks are using gmail and its web based UI and it is just plain awful. I have made the switch to using neomutt (and isync + notmuch + mstmp) and it has made emails a joy to use and work with. I use p

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

2023-09-03 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
> > This is what I mean when I say many times emacs is kind of mandatory, > > and > > this thread is kind of a demonstration of what I meant because the main > > discussion evolved to: you can use this or that in emacs to ease the > > dev > > experience. > > > One of the benefits of my being ab