Shea: I feel your pain. That's one of the reasons why I forked - cause people revert patches (which feel randomly to authors) without even trying to discuss an issue enough so that its impossible to fix the issue causing the revert. This may lead to depression. Happened to me trying to implement the "num-cores" patch.
Peter: you should talk about the nix version you used, architecture and your configuration.nix (unless its top secret). If Peter had taken care he would have tried providing as much info required to reproduce your info - and he would have waited a couple of hours asking you to resolve the issue. That you've been very responsive seems obvious to me. Which info is required? - configuration.nix - nix revision - architecture - (and as M.R noted NIX_REMOTE setting) Also reverting 3 patches because a one line patch is said to cause this issue ... can be done - but in the end its going to produce a lot of noise nobody wants to read in commit logs (sorry - my 2 cents). M.R already noted that its easy "to get back the old revision" - So let me add: "Its easy to checkout the old revision until the issue is resolved" which should be done as fast as possible. So Peter sending to the mailinglist should have made enough people be aware of the issue - and should have been enough for a couple of hours (maybe up to 24h). I don't expect that many people updating their systems every couple of hours. So the impact on the community would not have been that big if trunk was broken for some hours. That's why there are mailinglists and chat rooms. Anyway - why do people feel that strong about trunk? Is it because they have important systems which must run all day ? Such as "spawning emergency systems on amazon"? Then it should be them maintaining a "stable" branch - because that's the only way to ensure that their systems keep working - them depending on "trunk" would be insane anyway. And such a "stable" branch can be defined "stable" by "all test cases pass". That would make lot's of sense - if something breaks another test case should eventually be added. BTW: Should we revert all patches on the git kernel tree because BTRFS broke (causing the system to hang and become slower ?). Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev