[Nix-dev] Keeping nixpkgs up to date

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

I have a problem with the pull requests... In github, if I'm not wrong, I can
either receive all PRs by mail or none. Hence I unsubscribed. Thankfully,
sometimes people do @viric on some packages.

I wish I could accept a merge by replying the request letter, instead of
clicking the web button.

Regards,
Lluís.

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:43:15AM +1200, Chris Double wrote:
> Speed of processing pull requests for new packages is an issue.
> Anything that can be done to reduce this would be helpful. It's
> demotivating as a contributor to do what seems to be a simple package
> update of a minor version and have the pull request take weeks.
> 
> When I first started using NixOS the tor package was way out of date
> so I updated it. That went pretty quickly. 3 months ago I did a pull
> request to update to a recent tor minor release on unstable. This went
> through ok. I waited a couple of weeks for testing then did a pull
> request to get it in 14.04;
> 
> <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/3136>
> 
> Updating Tor on 14.04 to version 0.2.4.22 and Tor Browser to 3.6.2.
> This has been sitting for two months. Since then a newer version of
> Tor and Tor Browser has come out so it's already out of date. I
> haven't bothered trying to do a pull request to update to the new
> version as there seems no point given that processing pull requests
> must be overloaded.
> 
> I can see this only getting worse as more people do pull requests for
> package updates.
> 
> New packages are no doubt worse since it takes more analysis of the
> pull request for someone to approve it.
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