[Nix-dev] Keeping nixpkgs up to date

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

nixpkgs is a repository that holds maintainers with very different interests,
some very narrow, with the common factor of nix/nixos. I really don't want to
hear about updates to a very big percent of nixpkgs. :)

In nixpkgs, 'meta.maintainers' was a way to get maintainers called upon some update
in an expressoion. But this does not have github equivalent, and using the
github PRs notification as way of organisation brings us to pre-meta.maintainers
days.

Either that or I'm misunderstanding the whole affair, and there is a way of
participating in merging PRs less cumbersome than the one I know.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 04:55:38PM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 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 When I first started using NixOS the tor package was way out of date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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