[Nix-dev] Keeping nixpkgs up to date

[Benno Fünfstück]

Would a script that checked all PRs if they contain a change to a file with
maintainers.<name> help? You could then regulary run that script or run it
automatically to get notifications.

--
Benno


2014-08-31 17:07 GMT+02:00 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:

> 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 When I first started using NixOS the tor package was way out of date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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