[Nix-dev] Implement a process for maintaining simple package updates?

Graham Christensen graham at grahamc.com
Sun Feb 5 19:40:40 CET 2017


Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> writes:

> I would like to ask whether it would be of any help if someone (for 
> example me) would take all package-update PRs and cherry-pick these 
> commits on a "package-update" branch which gets merged every... 7 days 
> for example?

I don't have any real opinions about this, but do have some questions:

 - Can you describe the advantages of this process?
 - Will you be vetting the correctness of the changes, or simply
   aggregating them?

Best,
Graham
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