Re: Automatically testing package updates

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> 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.  As we're
> trying to undo the damage of years of being overwhelmed by patches I'd
> really like to keep the issue tracker for humans only.

I wonder what level of human validation we’d want for “trivial updates”.
In Nixpkgs, IIUC, a bot submits pull requests and a human being
eventually clicks the merge button.

Ludo’.