[Nix-dev] mention-bot for nixpkgs?

[zimbatm]

The Homu model looks quite interesting. If homu would trigger a hydra build
and only push to master after the build succeeds, I believe that it would
simplify a lot of things nicely.

Master would already have binary caches from the builds so we could use it
as the unstable channel. This is quite big because as a small-time
contributor I never really know when my contributions are going to hit
unstable right now. And using master means that I might have to recompile
quite a lot of things myself.

Master would always be stable in term of syntax so people can rebase on top
of it to build their pull-requests. Right now I have to chose between
either using master with maybe broken things and no binary caches, or use
the nixos-unstable branch (that is also in another repo) and not know if my
changes are going to merge on master upfront.

Even staging could be removed if builds are sped-up enough.





On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 at 13:55 Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> wrote:

> It seems someone added this to the nixpkgs! Awesome!
>
> On 22-11-2015 17:09:43, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to ask whether it would be a good idea to use montion-bot[0]
> for our
> > nixpkgs repository?
> >
> > Another idea would be to use homu[1]. Please argue.
> >
> > [0]: https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot
> > [1]: homu.io
>
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