Attila Lendvai <att...@lendvai.name> writes: > this sounds nice, but the reality is that nowadays reviewing and > pushing commits can take weeks or even months without much feedback. i > even have a fix for git-authenticate, coupled with tests that > demonstrate a hole, and it's been open for months. i assume because of > the lack of bandwidth from people who are in position to review and/or > push it, but whatever the reason is, this is the case. > > the vision you are painting here is inspiring, but i think the Guix > community is reaching a size where such an organizational structure is > not facilitating the cooperation well enough. more and more random > people will show up, with contributions of varying levels of > quality. if it all goes through the current choke-points of the core > (people, guix-devel, etc), then they will get overwhelmed, or at least > will limit what could otherwise be achieved with more appropriate > tools/processes.
You might have a point here, but I get the feeling that things are slowly changing to address it. Also, it's important to keep in mind that the sporadic contributor will always be more scrutinised. > random example: the readability of plain-text emails pouring into > guix-patches, compared to e.g. threaded, formatted, and > displayed-in-context comment threads in a tool like gitlab. I don't see how gitlab would help. Gnus, for instance, provides the formatting you mention. -- André A. Gomes "Free Thought, Free World"
