Re: Ensuring we don't break user systems

[Clément Lassieur]

Hi Pjotr,

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:58:08PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>> Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> skribis:
>> >> We wouldcreate a new branch, stable, that would be used by guix pull. We 
>> >> would continue to push to master or other branches.
>> 
>> +1
>
> Alternatively guix pull should only fetch the last tagged release.
> This has the advantage some people can test it before going into the
> wider world. Essentially a mini release cycle. And it does not have to
> be every day:
>
> 1. Decide on a time point (git hash) for the next guix pull (branch
>    it)
> 2. Ask some people to test it (in addition to automated testing)
> 3. When OK tag release
> 4. Guix pull starts using that
>
> A rolling guix pull is a rather bad idea for stability ;). Unlike the
> main releases I think this can be done weekly or bi-monthly.

With your solution, it's impossible to add security fixes, whereas it's
possible to add them to a stable branch, I believe.