Re: Automatically testing package updates

[Suhail Singh]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

>> sidenote: as a newcomer i found it rather off-putting that the bug
>> tracker is full of random two-liner package updates, many long
>> forgotten and even obsolete.
>
> This is exactly my point and why I think the bug tracker must contain
> only *actionable* work that humans are meant to work on.

I believe it's only required that the bug tracker provide a way to limit
results to only humanly-generated-patches.

If by bug tracker we mean the mumi instance at issues.gnu.guix.org note
that something like the above already happens today.  The debbugs
instance is shared with Emacs.  However, bugs relating to the "emacs"
user don't show up in the search results in the mumi interface.  All
currently humanly-generated patches sent to guix-patches are assigned
the user "guix".  It would be possible to have the bot-generated patches
be assigned a different user, or if the same user, a specific user-tag
that is filtered out by mumi in the search results.

There may be possibly other reasons why we don't want to do so.
However, being able to only focus on the humanly-generated-patches isn't
such a reason.

-- 
Suhail