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[PATCH 0/6] Allow origin with label as inputs.

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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, 73073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>, Christopher Baines <guix <at> cbaines.net>, Nicolas Goaziou <guix <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#73073] [PATCH v3 1/8] packages: Use origin file names as their input labels.
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:30:55 +0100

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Hi,

On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 22:54, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Regarding #2, what do we mean by “world rebuild”?  30K? 20K? 10K?
> I think the phrase is colloquially understood as “a lot of rebuilds”,
> usually meaning more than 5K per architecture.  With this magnitude,
> world rebuilds are now commonplace.
>
> The way to deal with such changes is documented and working relatively
> well though (info "(guix) Managing Patches and Branches").  The key
> insight from experience over the past years is that we must avoid scope
> creep and instead have focused branches.

This is somehow a waste of electrical resource.  This discussion [1] is not
done IMHO and we are seeing again another instance of what I tried to
describe [1].

BTW, please note if we would like to follow what is described by  "Managing
Patches and Branches", the workflow would read: create a topic branch where
the topic is "input- label", apply the whole fix (including the rebuild
cycle), build it then merge.

Somehow I'm missing a point with the argument...  Whatever. :-)

For sure, now is better than never, as a good Zen said.  So I will live
with this merge.

Cheers,
simon

PS: Although never is often better than *right* now, said right after the
very same good Zen. ;-)

1: Naming “build train” instead of “merge train”?
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:28:57 +0200
id:878qw0sply.fsf <at> gmail.com
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-09
https://yhetil.org/guix/878qw0sply.fsf <at> gmail.com

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