[Nix-dev] Zero Hydra Failures (ZHF) project for NixOS

[Michael Raskin]

>On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 05:45:34PM +0200, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
>> We have 2 solution, either we stop the regressions when a pull request
>> (PR) is made, or we stop it when the fire is in.  The fireman role is
>> hard to keep, and we should be verifying as much as possible at the PR
>> time.  Also, if we want to avoid firemans, we probably want to forbid
>> pushing patches to the repository without having made a pull request
>> at first.  Which means, no more massive updates without checks.
>> 
>
>Just being completely honest here, I will be less likely to contribute
>things I don't need urgently if I have to open a PR and wait even after
>testing locally.

And let's be honest even further: we need to go ahead quickly, our value
is not in making mistakes rarely, it is in the ease of fixing them. We 
are not yet in the state where freezing it and maintaining stability is
a good idea.

I am afraid that the only good thing that can come from the quest for
stability would be a well-tested way to support overlays.