Would a script that checked all PRs if they contain a change to a file with maintainers.<name> help? You could then regulary run that script or run it automatically to get notifications.
-- Benno 2014-08-31 17:07 GMT+02:00 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: > nixpkgs is a repository that holds maintainers with very different > interests, > some very narrow, with the common factor of nix/nixos. I really don't want > to > hear about updates to a very big percent of nixpkgs. :) > > In nixpkgs, 'meta.maintainers' was a way to get maintainers called upon > some update > in an expressoion. But this does not have github equivalent, and using the > github PRs notification as way of organisation brings us to > pre-meta.maintainers > days. > > Either that or I'm misunderstanding the whole affair, and there is a way of > participating in merging PRs less cumbersome than the one I know. > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 04:55:38PM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > I have a problem with the pull requests... In github, if I'm not wrong, > I can > > either receive all PRs by mail or none. Hence I unsubscribed. Thankfully, > > sometimes people do @viric on some packages. > > > > I wish I could accept a merge by replying the request letter, instead of > > clicking the web button. > > > > Regards, > > Lluís. > > > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:43:15AM +1200, Chris Double wrote: > > > Speed of processing pull requests for new packages is an issue. > > > Anything that can be done to reduce this would be helpful. It's > > > demotivating as a contributor to do what seems to be a simple package > > > update of a minor version and have the pull request take weeks. > > > > > > When I first started using NixOS the tor package was way out of date > > > so I updated it. That went pretty quickly. 3 months ago I did a pull > > > request to update to a recent tor minor release on unstable. This went > > > through ok. I waited a couple of weeks for testing then did a pull > > > request to get it in 14.04; > > > > > > <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/3136> > > > > > > Updating Tor on 14.04 to version 0.2.4.22 and Tor Browser to 3.6.2. > > > This has been sitting for two months. Since then a newer version of > > > Tor and Tor Browser has come out so it's already out of date. I > > > haven't bothered trying to do a pull request to update to the new > > > version as there seems no point given that processing pull requests > > > must be overloaded. > > > > > > I can see this only getting worse as more people do pull requests for > > > package updates. > > > > > > New packages are no doubt worse since it takes more analysis of the > > > pull request for someone to approve it. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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