last paragraph shall be As application packages are usually at the end of the dependency chain (they depend on other libraries or components more than the other way around) updating application packages shall take less review effort.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 2:19 PM Andy Tai <a...@atai.org> wrote: > > Hi, currently Guix has teams of reviewers for different types of > packages. For example, changes to R packages and emacs seem to be > reviewed quickly. However, recently, patches for updating more > general application packages (octave, for example) seem to be reviewed > and processed very slowly. > > As a GNU/Linux distribution the update speed of applications impact > the perception of the community on a distribution, and thus it is > beneficial if packages update can be processed quickly to keep Guix > "up to date" so to speak. Hope Guix maintainers can give some thought > to this and let more volunteers participate in package review process > to allow package updates more quickly. As packages are usually at > the end of the dependency chain (they depend on other libraries or > components more than the other way around) updating packages shall > take less review effort. -- Andy Tai, a...@atai.org, Skype: licheng.tai, Line: andy_tai, WeChat: andytai1010 Year 2023 民國112年 自動的精神力是信仰與覺悟 自動的行為力是勞動與技能
