On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:26:54PM +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org> wrote: [...] >>> Moreover I'm not fond of this kind of race. >> >> Neither am I, but I see no way easy way of addressing that. > > A way to quickly sending notices that a change is in progress.
Send it where? To the mailing list? >> I'm a >> strong believer in only pushing changes once they build, and the only >> way of making sure of that is to make the build. Building ~50 >> packages takes quite a while. > > Yes but you pushed the x86_64 while the i686 was not fully built. > > I recommend the following: > > * build one arch > * git push > * build the other > * push both Good suggestion, I will adopt this. [...] > Currently, there are not much users. And I want this repo to at > least suit my needs otherwise I will simply build them for my use. I > prefer to have the side effect of being potentially useful for > someone else. Fair enough, but I still ask of you to consider that every package you add will result in longer build times and that affects everyone who works on keeping [haskell] up-to-date. >>> So for me we move out broken packages that we cannot quickly fix >>> if they are not much used. >> >> How do we find out if they aren't used? > > I don't know. Maybe we can GC with a kind of vote/lease system. > Imagine the following use case: > > $ cblrepo vote agda haskell-pandoc ... > > Which would transitively mark these packages as used (or add a voice to them, > or > put a timestamp). > > $ git commit ; git push > > Everyone does the same and then: > > $ cblrepo remove `cblrepo unused` > $ cblrepo clearvotes I'm not sure I understand the thinking behind this, but I suspect this would mean that only people with commit access to our habs repo may vote. Or did I get that wrong? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay
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