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Andrew Tropin

One of the things with mailing list driven workflow (in Guix and RDE) bothering me is that I can't review and merge patches without downloading emails, applying patches locally, signing them and pushing them to repo.

However, for most version bumps and other trivial changes it must be much more convinient, just one button click away. If it was so, it would be much less stale and forgotten patches I guess.

Most of git forges do much better job here.

#guix #git #rde

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Ludovic Courtès

@abcdw They do a better job, except when the committer is required to sign commits, as is the case in Guix; in that case the forge still leaves it up to the committer to perform the last actions.

PuercoPop

@abcdw There is nothing inherent to the mailing list driven workflow preventing this. This is something the CI could take care of. Having the CI being the one responsible for the merging itself ensures that
a) The main branch is always green
b) Any artifacts associated with commit are build _before_ the branch the commit is promoted to master

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