> Hi Shea, > > > Is there any reason we can't just do a full merge? > > who is "we"? >
I haven't been around long enough to have been here for the last stdenv-updates merge, but if I were handling it it would go something like this: 1. Enable building the full release.nix on stdenv-updates, not just release-small 2. Those who care about/maintain the major packages that aren't part of stdenv (e.g. kde, xorg, etc.) test, fix problems that are in their domain, and report problems that are errors in stdenv. This might entail updates of packages 3. Those who care about/maintain the packages in stdenv (not just those that have been updated, but all of them) respond to the reported problems while trying not to add new features, use newer versions, etc. unless absolutely necessary 4. When the major package maintainers are satisfied and hydra can successfully build a similar set of packages as those that build on current trunk, we merge back in So in that scenario, "we" is anyone who cares about the packages in stdenv or the major packages. That's a large subset of our devs, but I think that's appropriate when we're completely changing our entire system. Of course, I will probably not be handling the merge (though I'd be willing to if people wanted me to), so the process may be completely different than what I outlined. > > I, for one, don't want to be responsible for that task. I'll happily > merge those parts of the branch that I know and that I can test, but I > don't want to debug code that I don't use and that I don't know anything > about, i.e. all of KDE. > I think we'll need to hear from those with the standing to make this kind decision, but certainly no single maintainer should be expected to test and debug the entire affected code base for this kind of change. ~Shea > > Take care, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
