Hi, I agree with most of Maxim’s message. I add two points.
On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 at 20:22, Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> wrote: > I see the argument that there's an HTTP API for Forgejo; that's great, > but it requires that everyone relearn another way of doing something > that already works well enough for me and others, which I'm not too > excited about. I also assume the Forgejo-related tooling, given their > young age, would not be as mature and missing features in places, and > that it would require invested time to comfortably do all that can be > done today in Gnus and Emacs Debbugs, away from the web interface, in > the environment of choice (Emacs) of perhaps a majority of the Guix > contributors. a) Today, it’s not possible to work offline or by batch. To my knowledge, there is no tool; at least nothing compatible with Emacs. b) Today, it’s not possible to comment on patches without the web-interface, to my knowledge; least nothing compatible with Emacs. ( Aside, through my own glasses, it would be a blocker. But I’ve myopia and I know all people do not have the same lenses. ;-) I mean, I agree that our workflow reach some limitations and that we need to act now for helping the review/merge workload. Well, I’m adjusting my glasses. :-) ) >> Within **30 days** following acceptance of this GCD, committers would >> migrate all these repositories to https://codeberg.org/guix. >> >> For Guix itself, we would decide on a **flag day** 14 days after >> acceptance of this GCD at the earliest, and 30 days at the latest. On >> that day, the official URL of the Guix repository would become >> https://codeberg.org/guix/guix.git. A commit would reflect that by >> updating: > > I'd like to suggest extending the 'trial' period to something much > longer, like a year or so, to make sure our parachute is properly > installed before jumping the cliff :-). I agree. I propose 1. To design the move of the basis of teams in order to be a bit more incremental [1]. And 2. To help in implementing a simple one-way bridge [2]: report the open PR inside Debbugs. Cheers, simon 1: [bug#76503] [GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg Simon Tournier <[email protected]> Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:36:29 +0100 id:[email protected] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76503 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected] https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected] 2: [bug#76503] [GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg Simon Tournier <[email protected]> Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:35:25 +0100 id:[email protected] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76503 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected] https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]
