Hello!
As a part of a discussion about “cool features for GNU maintainers” at
the GHM, someone (Andreas, IIRC) suggested having a service (possibly a
Web service) that would allow maintainers to upload their (pre)release
tarballs and then get some feedback:
• If the package is not available in the distro, it would just say
“sorry, your package is not available in the distro, but you can
help!”. Something like that. ;-)
• If the package is available, it would do something equivalent to
‘guix build foo --with-source=foo.tar.gz’ and eventually return the
build result.
Upon success, it could also return a generated patch that can be
sent to guix-devel for inclusion.
It could also use something similar to ‘guix refresh
--list-dependent’ to try building dependent packages, or at least
tell the maintainer to check them.
I think we have most of the tools to do that, and it may be a good way
to entice GNU maintainers into contributing to Guix. Since it’s a
lightweight process, we could suggest to make it a recommendation in the
maintainer’s guide.
Thoughts? Who want to give it a go? :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
