bug#70456: Request for merging core-updates branch

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Christopher,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> it seems the core-updates branch is first in the merge-queue. haskell-team
>>>> was successfully built by the CI and is ready to be merged. Since there
>>>> does not seem to be an ETA for core-updates, can I skip the queue and
>>>> go ahead with merging haskell-team?
>>>>
>>>> Lars
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>> The lisp-team branch is also in a good shape and ready to be merged.
>>
>> I think it's fine to merge these first; perhaps the core-updates merge
>> request should be removed if it was preposterous (usually we issue the
>> merge request when we are confident the branch is ready to me merged).
>
> Can you clarify what you mean by preposterous?
>
> While the guidance did previously say to raise an issue when you wanted
> to merge the branch, it's now changed to when you create the branch in
> an attempt to avoid this of situation of long running stateful branches
> in the future.

OK, sorry, I somehow had forgotten/missed that.  Some branches might
require more work post merge-request than was expected; it's hard to say
without trying it first.

> I fail to see how merging core-updates is going to get easier if we
> wait.

It's not.  But while things are still being worked on, if other branches
are done and ready, they shouldn't be in held in limbo.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim