Hi Guix team! The current QA for the accepted changes in Gujx is far away from trustible. For example, some changes in package update may cause a faileur of the whole chain of packages depending on it. It would be nice to have some soft policy of changes, check list or some procedure to have a "stable" branch which may guarantee all packages build successfully and pass of all enabled tests.
I find current [[id:60941898-0ed4-4188-b473-d2dcda158d61][CI/CD]] (https://ci.guix.gnu.org/) is missleading in case of providing some visibility of all successful builds for the current pushed changes (on master branch). I would like to conclude from the CI is which commit broke how many packages. Other open question - if I've sticked to a specific "stable" branch how I may be sure that another ~guix pull~ will not break my packages in case of un-pinned version? Some missing features of CI - Timing - current view has missing a clear representation of build date-time - Overall slats for the current commit to the specific branch - and how many package are become broken after update of package X. - Sort of "blocking on merge" of a commit which causes some issues (do not merge broken packages into stable branch) - Some documentation for all UI features (green dots, red dots, grey dots etc. https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/54326/dashboard) Some missing practice of packaging: - Some essential message of the reason why tests were disabled and any sort of suggestions on how to make them enabled. Contact upstream if required. - Before sending patch make sure (at least for the localhost architecture) it's built, linted and in case of bumping version - all dependent chain still can be built. Related commits and issues which broke other packages in ~master~ branch: - https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53230 - fix 6445f412b993ec7b52dc4c81e99f49af38b3a967 RawTherapee stopped building with wrong configure key, the previous update to 5.8 was never tested before been merged. #+begin_src sh git checkout master git pull git log -n1 --pretty="%h %s %cd - %cn" #+end_src : 4235c6ee92 gnu: QGIS: Build without QtWebKit. Tue Jan 25 15:10:19 2022 -0500 - Leo Famulari Excess changes which could be prevented with just local attempt to build #+begin_src sh git log --grep="Fix build" --pretty="%h %s %cd - %cn" | wc -l #+end_src : 1025 -- … наш разум - превосходная объяснительная машина которая способна найти смысл почти в чем угодно, истолковать любой феномен, но совершенно не в состоянии принять мысль о непредсказуемости.