Re: Release 1.2.1: zstd 1.4.4 -> 1.4.9: grafting or core-updates?

[Léo Le Bouter]

On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 21:53 +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Hi L[ée]o,
> 
> Wow, Léo.  You've done some seriously impressive CVE squashing in 
> such a short timespan, and I'm very grateful to have you on board.

I spent few days on this, it's not that much! I did not do much work, I
didnt manually backport any patch (or only some with trivial changes
that can be made by manually editing the patch file), I don't feel I
deserve such thanks, even if they are appreciated, and we are all to be
thanked for our work, it's not that impressive, I think I just went
down with serious motivation looking at it and doing the repetitive
work there.

> I have the same request :-)  Please submit non-trivial patches for 
> review (and, unfortunately, grafts are hardly ever trivial).  This 
> isn't a comment on your work; it's our standard way of doing 
> things.
> 
> I know we're not the #1 bestest project when it comes to the swift 
> review of patches.  I understand the sense of urgency in fixing 
> things that one feels should have been fixed long ago.  Thank you 
> for helping us to improve on both points.

I understand, I am sorry for unsolicited breakage anything might have
caused, I will try to put it up for review, I already do try, zstd was
one of my earlier grafts, I did realize even by myself that after
pushing it I was touching a very critical part of GNU Guix and it
would've been better maybe to ask for review before.

> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R

Léo

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