Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:
Hi,
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 at 09:18, Jason Conroy
<jcon...@tscripta.net> wrote:
So my questions are: does the community put much priority on
keeping the repository buildable at each commit (versus, say,
at
the granularity of PRs)? And if it does, do I detect that there
are some exceptions made for bulk package updates?
That’s hard to answer for the general case, IMHO. :-) Somehow,
most of
the time, it’s based on case per case basis, I think.
By “repository buildable”, you mean that “all the packages
build“,
right?
All kinds of breakages can slow people down, but I think you're
right that "packages actually build" is the more interesting case
to talk about. (Some breakages, like Guile compilation failures,
are easily prevented and I can't see any excuse for them.)
Well, it would be nice if all the package already built. ;-)
Sure, package build regressions happen all the time - but the
responsible party may not realize a change will break things, or
they may not have a good way to determine the impacts of a change
in advance. My question is a little different, since it's about
commits within a PR that are *known* to introduce breakages (which
are then resolved in later commits of the same PR).
Cheers,
Jason
