Re: Changes to the branching/commit policy

[John Kehayias]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 09:23 PM, Christopher Baines wrote:
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
>
>> The changes in #63459 have strayed now in to touching the commit policy
>> [1]. My intent was to simplify the guidance by grouping it better, but I
>> think the significant change here is that the commit policy now
>> references the entire branching strategy, rather than just talking about
>> sending patches for review.
>>
>> 1: 
>> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Commit-Access.html#Commit-Policy>
>>
>> That new branching strategy makes some "should" requirements on sending
>> patches for review and pushing to topic branches for larger changes. It
>> also makes a "must" requirement on opening guix-patches issues to track
>> and manage merging branches.
>>
>> I'd like to merge these changes next week since they've been up for a
>> few weeks, so do comment if you have any thoughts or if you'd like more
>> time to review them.
>
> I've now merged these changes as
> 0ea096ae23fa81f05ce97e5e61c15647c0a475ec.
>
> You can now see the updated Commit Policy on the website [1] (you might
> need to force a refresh), as well as the new section on managing patches
> and branches [2].
>
> 1: 
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Commit-Access.html#Commit-Policy>
> 2: 
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Managing-Patches-and-Branches.html>
>

Thanks for these changes! Question on branches (sorry if this was
covered in a previous thread, but now that we have new language in the
manual I figure this is a good place): do we have a convention on
branch names and subject headers for emailing patches for the branch?
e.g. does [PATCH <branch> 1/3] do anything on the QA end? Or does the
section about branch building for once patches are pushed to a branch
on Savannah? Does that mean pushing to a branch should follow the same
1-2 week review allowing QA builds? I guess patch series are always
built together on QA but wondering if there is anything else to be
aware of or needs mentioning to keep things tidy and clear.

Thanks!
John