bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch (was: Channels!)

2018-08-29 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ricardo, > I also agree with you that we don’t need channels for providing a stable > branch. The biggest obstacle to providing a stable branch is not > technical, but it requires people maintaining it. Look at this from the opposite end: if you were interested in maintaining a stable softwar

bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch (was: Channels!)

2018-08-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Mark, > I'd like to say again that I have grave concerns that this could be the > death-knell for long-term innovation in Guix. It's likely that whenever > a change is proposed that will break these third-party channels, there > will be resistance, and efforts to preserve backward compatibil

bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch (was: Channels!)

2018-08-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > My primary interest in channels at the moment comes from believing that > having a "stable" channel would be incredibly useful to increase > adoption rate of Guix. And for me. Konrad Hinsen writes: > Look at the wider Linux world: there are people who want to