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

2023-09-17 Thread MSavoritias
On 9/6/23 23:10, Wojtek Kosior via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: Hello, I wanted to add to this thread my 2 cents. As a person who has recently (last months) made the first attempts at contributing. To me, registrations and reliance on JS had always been an

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

2023-09-17 Thread MSavoritias
On 9/7/23 23:38, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote: On 9/5/23 2:43 PM, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: Am Dienstag, dem 05.09.2023 um 19:40 +0100 schrieb (: Liliana Marie Prikler writes: Uhm, we have snippets? Well, those are exclusive to Emacs :)  And without regard to /that/ issue, I do think that

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

2023-09-17 Thread MSavoritias
On 9/13/23 18:42, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: Hi Fannys, Fannys writes: Ekaitz Zarraga writes: 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 e

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

2023-09-17 Thread MSavoritias
On 9/12/23 17:51, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: Hi, Csepp writes: Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] Hello Csepp, Csepp writes: [...] I don't think repeating that no forge sucks less advances the conversation towards any solution other than keeping the status quo, whic

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

2023-09-17 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Liliana, On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 at 00:19, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: > 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

Guix Days and Fosdem 2024

2023-09-17 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello everyone, It's that time of the year again. We should start preparing for the Guix Days 2024 and a Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom proposal. I have created the pages at [1] devroom proposal and [2] Guix days. I copy pasted the text from last year and updated the year. W

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

2023-09-17 Thread MSavoritias
On 9/8/23 21:50, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: Hi, Am Freitag, dem 08.09.2023 um 16:44 +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: I often have to review Github Pull Requests, and I don’t go commit by commit by go through the diff and annotate the changes.  I *read* the commits to get a sense for how the fe

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

2023-09-17 Thread MSavoritias
On 9/10/23 01:20, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: Am Samstag, dem 09.09.2023 um 21:40 +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: Liliana Marie Prikler writes: Must we force a single workflow on everyone, even if our track record in reviewing and merging doesn’t clearly show that our way is superior? Again

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

2023-09-17 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Am Sonntag, dem 17.09.2023 um 19:20 +0300 schrieb MSavoritias: > Personally free software means that there shouldn't even be a > separation of Dev and user. But that's another topic. I mean, the pull request model has this separation baked into it. To create a pull request, you must have an accoun

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

2023-09-17 Thread MSavoritias
Sounds like a great idea! I agree that exclusivity and how we can improve contribution should be included. Also communication channels of course. Maybe also what communication channels people would like to see? Just thinking out loud for questions. I would also be glad to be of help with

New section to easily reference Debbugs URLs within Emacs Debbugs

2023-09-17 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, If you use Emacs and Emacs-Debbugs, you may be interested in applying the settings newly documented in the 'Viewing Bugs within Emacs' section of the manual; see it at the bottom of info "(guix) The Perfect Setup"). I hope that's useful, -- Thanks, Maxim