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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 8:39 AM Agostino Sarubbo <ago@g.o> wrote: |
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> On giovedì 22 aprile 2021 12:02:20 CEST Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Well, I suppose scanning the dev branch would be preferable over |
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> > the master branch. In reality, they are usually only a few hours apart |
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> > but it might be useful to know of new breakage in dev before it's merged |
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> > to master. |
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> > It would be ideal if you could do a switch when master and dev are |
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> > in sync, and just copy the state from master. |
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> Hi, |
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> I think that your approach could be generally valid but for this use case I'm |
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> against because of the following: |
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> 1) The approach is valid in cases like our github PRs and the bot that |
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> approves the commit. In this case, who moves the commit between branches does |
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> not know if the scan has been done or not. |
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> 2) I don't see the reason to scan against something that we don't know if will |
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> be the same in master branch |
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> 3) We are not doing a similar approach for ::gentoo so I don't see why do this |
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> for GURU since, after all, it is an overlay |
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> 4) Packages in master are supposed to be tested at least from 2 different |
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> people (who made the commit in dev and who moves the commit to master) so it |
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> means less bugspam |
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Perhaps another approach could be to add a third branch, "staging". |
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Any reviewers could move the appropriate ebuilds to "staging" once all |
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the reviews and discussions are done but before moving to "master" |
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In fact, probably a github action could be set up to automatically |
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move to "master" after the CI stuff passes. |