Hi, Simon Tournier <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 at 16:30, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What waiting for the bot brings is a public track record, and the simple >> fact that it avoids mistakes that any person could make (and it runs >> ‘guix pull’, which committers are unlikely to do manually). >> >> Of course, there’s a risk of slowing things down if the infrastructure >> is not keeping up so we’ll have to constantly pay attention to that. > > To me, the concern isn’t about “slow down“ but about “not done”. > > When it’s a two-lines update and leaf – ’guix build -P1’ is doable and > indeed carefully done! – waiting for the bot appears to me “wasteful“. > Because once the bot reports green, someone™ still needs to rebase on > the top of current master and… check again! :-) Most of the time, nothing will need to be rebuilt after 3 days. But also: the bot gives a track record that the PR was indeed tested at one point in time. It makes mistakes less likely, which pacifies relations among ourselves and removes pressure from committers. [...] > …I agree we should not adapt the Policy because the state of our CI; to > the contrary, we should have the Policy that appears to us the right one > and invest to make the CI “good enough”. Yes, I agree. Thanks, Ludo’.
