Re: [workflow] Automatically close bug report when a patch is committed

2023-09-15 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Simon, thank you for havig listed possible troubles. Before commenting, just let me repeat that we are _copying_ the 'Change-Id' idea (and related possible implementation issues) from Gerrit: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-changeid.html This means that Somewhere

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

2023-09-15 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 at 23:19, Sarthak Shah wrote: > I believe that it should not be very hard to create a user interface (web, > ncurses or GUI) that searches for a package's location (the package record > has a field that accommodates this) and then displays it, which the user > can then ed

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

2023-09-15 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Edouard, On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 at 20:57, Edouard Klein wrote: > Second, I don't know what the general feeling is here towards debbugs, but > if moving away from it is something that may happen, my suggestion is not > to use anything with Pull Requests, as Simon you seem to have > understood. P

Re: [workflow] Automatically close bug report when a patch is committed

2023-09-15 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Giovanni, Before commenting, let me repeat. ;-) That’s said, I am not against the proposal. I just have mixed feelings and before deploying I strongly suggest to review if the proposal covers the intent. On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 at 09:16, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Befo

Re: branch master updated: gnu: qemu: Reinstate the iothreads-commit-active test.

2023-09-15 Thread Christopher Baines
guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > commit 076b3384dfa29ae118d0375d516376a7fe98a197 > Author: Maxim Cournoyer > AuthorDate: Tue Sep 12 09:29:22 2023 -0400 > > gnu: qemu: Reinstate the iothreads-commit-active test. > > * gnu/packages/virtualization.scm (qemu) [arguments]: Add set-SOCK_DIR > p

Re: branch master updated: gnu: qemu: Reinstate the iothreads-commit-active test.

2023-09-15 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Chris, On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 4:41 AM Christopher Baines wrote: > > It could be that it just happened to build previously I recently tried to build the full qemu (8.1.0) but it failed six times before succeeding. Maybe your issue is intermittent also? Kind regards Felix

The already complicated (complex?) process for contributing.

2023-09-15 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Simon, maybe we are drifting... again? ;-) Simon Tournier writes: [...] >> If this is stil not properly documented it will be fixed. > > Maybe… and it will be another item in the already very long list of > steps to complete before contributing. This is one of my concern: add > yet another

Re: branch master updated: gnu: qemu: Reinstate the iothreads-commit-active test.

2023-09-15 Thread Christopher Baines
Christopher Baines writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Good signature from 5E28A33B0B84F577 Christopher Baines > (trust ultimate) created at 2023-09-15T12:40:53+0100 using > RSA]] > > guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > >> commit 076b3384dfa29ae118d0375d516376a7fe98a197 >> Author: Maxim Cournoyer >> Auth

Re: Implementing the guix-dameon in Guile

2023-09-15 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
My old university email address started demanding a phone number to "verify the security of my account", which was pretty funny considering it never had a phone number to begin with, so I'm locked out of that. Same GPG public key, though. Christopher Baines writes: > Hey! > > I think this has b

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

2023-09-15 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Giovanni, On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 at 16:37, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > maybe we are drifting... again? ;-) Yes we are. :-) > Is it /complex/ or /complicated/? Change-Id is not really complex – especially if the complexity is hidden behind some pre-commit hook – and it is not complex compared t

Re: [workflow] Automatically close bug report when a patch is committed

2023-09-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2023-09-15, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: > Am Donnerstag, dem 14.09.2023 um 15:51 -0700 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: >> On 2023-09-10, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag, dem 07.09.2023 um 09:12 -0700 schrieb Vagrant >> > Cascadian: >> > > I am much more comfortable with the "Fixes" c

Re: [workflow] Automatically close bug report when a patch is committed

2023-09-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2023-09-14, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Maxim Cournoyer writes: >> I like the 'Closes: ' trailer idea; it's simple. However, it'd need to >> be something added locally, either the user typing it out (unlikely for >> most contributors) or via some mumi wizardry (it's unlikely that all >> users w

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

2023-09-15 Thread Saku Laesvuori
> 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 done via git send-email. I think the hard