Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

[Clément Lassieur]

On Mon, Feb 05 2024, Andy Tai wrote:

> Hi, this is a sugestion on guix patches:
>
> Other GNU/Linux distributions often have fixed maintainers (or
> packagers) for specific packages.
> While that model may not apply directly to the Guix project as anyone
> can send in patches for anything in the git repo, maybe one thing the
> Guix project can do is to recognize if someone has sent in patches for
> specific projects many times in the past, then that means the person
> has knowledge, interest, familiarity and expertise about this package
> and the reviewers can spend minimal time of his/her future patches for
> the same package(s).
>
> Thus this creates kind of pseudo package maintainer in Guix, reducing
> workload of reviewers and speeding up package update.
>
> Guix can have a text file in the Guix repo recording say someone who
> is "responsible" or is a "pseudo packager" for specific packages,
> which the committers can refer to to allow quick processing of
> patches.  This does not mean the person responsible for certain
> package has git commit access but just to allow a quick path for patch
> processing by the commiters of certain patches from the familiar
> person.
>
> Of course others can still send in patches for these packages already
> with pseudo packagers.

We have exactly this:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/etc/teams.scm

And it's even better: those people automatically receive an email if you
use git-send-email to send a patch about their associated files.