Re: Merging core-updates? OFF TOPIC PRAISE

[Joshua Branson]

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
>
>> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>>
>>> As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates
>>> in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't
>>> know what steps I should follow. Do we have some documentation about
>>> that?
>>
>> I can try and help with this, at least in terms of helping get
>> bordeaux.guix.gnu.org substitute availability to a good level.
>>
>> I'd also like to get the kind of comparison that the qa-frontpage can do
>> for patches working for branches, but that'll probably take a bit of
>> work in the data service/qa-frontpage to get working smoothly.
>
> I've now addressed some performance issues with data.qa.guix.gnu.org,
> which means that the comparisons for core-updates (and branches like it)
> should now work, even if they're still a bit slow.
>
> This has enabled qa.guix.gnu.org to submit builds to the bordeaux build
> farm, they're still being slowly submitted but things have already
> started to happen for aarch64-linux at least.
>
> Once there's enough build data to work with, I'll see if I can start
> getting some information to show up on qa.guix.gnu.org.

Christopher thanks a million for your work on bordeaux and
qa.guix.gnu.org!  It's awesome that guix is moving towards having a QA
assurance that new patches won't break testsuitse!

Thanks again!

Joshua