Hello, Am Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 09:53:29AM +0800 schrieb 宋文武: > I usually push patches for others who don't have commit access, while > most packages don't have a team at all, and some with me as the only > team member. > Should I wait for another commiter's approvol under this new policy or > can I push "random packages" (eg: jwm) solo under the status quo? For > packages I as the only team member (eg: fcitx), should I looking for > another commiter for other's patches and my patches?
under the current policy, what you do is fine and very welcome. Under the new policy, it would not be (if I remember correctly, there is a one week waiting policy, after which one could push nevertheless). So while the idea is good in principle, I think we would have to make sure that first: 1) Every current and potential new package is covered by a team. 2) Every team has at least 3 members, better yet 4 or 5. 3 members would make it possible that even if one of them is on vacation or otherwise busy a patch could be pushed without this additional one week if the other 2 agree. And I also think we then need 3) more tooling; maybe a mailing list for each team? A file that contains the link between source code files and teams, and a script around "git send-email" that automatically puts into cc the corresponding team when submitting a patch? And the feature branches with QA on cuirass or the Guix Build Coordinator that we talked about at the Guix Days. I think our main problem right now is lack of committers and/or contributors. While looking at core-updates, I was surprised how outdated some of our packages are (around Qt, KDE and Python, for instance; I suppose it depends a lot on the field), in particular for a rolling release distro. (For Qt@5, we were at a release from June 2022, and there had been more recent releases in September, October and January; it would be nice to have a working team preparing a feature branch in a timely fashion after each release.) There are currently 48 committers, and not all of them are active. I think this is just not enough for 20000 packages. Andreas
