Re: Pushed a fix (?) for ACL key location

[zimoun]

Dear Marius,

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 14:33, Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> wrote:

> One possible solution that has been discussed before is to have the CI
> continously merge master to a 'stable' branch when lights are green.
> There are quite a few challenges to solve with that approach though.
>
> We could make the pre-push hook run 'guix pull' and 'guix system build'
> but it will quickly get annoying.  A server-side hook for the same would
> be less annoying, but would have a hard time if someone accidentally
> pushes a full rebuild.
>
> In practice there will always be problems that cannot be caught in an
> automated way.  I hope such breakages are rare, but from your message it
> sounds like there were many problems just this week-end?

If all the patches go to Debuggs (guix-patches) then using the commit
(format-patch --base=auto), the infrastructure could automatically
build, run tests, lint etc. then it eases the job of the reviewer and
the substitutes are available when the end-user pull.  The merge would
be done by hand --as today-- by the committer (pusher) to master.  Well,
Cuirass could track guix-patches instead of tracking master.

The issue of the rebuild-the-world accident could happen.  But it could
also happen now, with the current model.

It is a difficult topic but what is the feedback of such initiatives [1,2]?

1: https://patchwork.cbaines.net/project/guix-patches/list/
2: https://data.guix-patches.cbaines.net/

All the best,
simon