Re: branch staging updated: gnu: ghc-7: Clean up package definition.

[Marius Bakke]

Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 09:22:31PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> We should have a better way to poll branch status other than "read all
>> messages on guix-devel" or "ask Marius on IRC".
>
> Ouch, sorry for that! I see two potential solutions:
>
> 1. Have a guix-devel-announce mailing list, to which we would post
>    things concerning all Guix developers.

Actually we already have an underutilized 'info-guix' list.  I suppose
that can work.

> 2. Configure the git server to reject pushes to frozen branches when
>    unless --force is used.

It will be difficult for the server to distinguish between 'bug fixes'
and 'huge rebuilds'.  Not sure if the --force flag propagates to servers
the way you are thinking of, but perhaps it can work (not a great habit
though!).

Also, we'd have to bother the Savannah admins every time we 'freeze' a
branch.

Another option could be to create a tracking bug with a special tag that
can be displayed by issues.guix.gnu.org.  It could also show any merge
blockers such as <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41598> to make it
easier to contribute.

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