| 22 Mar 2023 |
 K900 | Honestly, I don't really know | 11:28:44 |
| K900 | Presumably some people use it for filtering? | 11:28:49 |
| K900 | I don't | 11:28:52 |
 @piegames:matrix.org | I think it's kind of useful for reminding involved people about it getting stale. Like, sometimes people just forget with all the stuff they have open | 11:29:31 |
 Wanja Hentze | subjectively, I've had an *easier* time getting stuff reviewed and merged recently than I used to 1-2 years ago | 11:30:07 |
| Wanja Hentze | regardless of number of open PRs | 11:30:20 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | In reply to @piegames:matrix.org
I think it's kind of useful for reminding involved people about it getting stale. Like, sometimes people just forget with all the stuff they have open Same reminder can be seen as a question, "can this be closed now?". Of course one could also find such PRs through the search, but then a person that was not involved in the discussion at all might have to answer this question. Better ask the people who are already in the thread. | 11:31:08 |
| K900 | In reply to@whentze:matrix.org
subjectively, I've had an *easier* time getting stuff reviewed and merged recently than I used to 1-2 years ago Definitely | 11:31:07 |
| K900 | But also, we have more bandwidth doesn't mean we have enough bandwidth | 11:31:13 |
| Wanja Hentze | yes | 11:31:21 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | So I think I'd be fine without a stale bot whatsoever, but it is not completely useless either | 11:31:41 |
| K900 | One of my extremely backburner projects is something like bors for nixpkgs that would allow maintainers to merge changes to their packages without having the commit bit | 11:31:57 |
 snowytrees | I personally like it because it’s easier to distinguish unfinished/abandoned PRs from failed ones. | 11:32:09 |
| snowytrees | When they aren’t closed* | 11:32:14 |
| K900 | That should help a lot with the queue | 11:32:16 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
One of my extremely backburner projects is something like bors for nixpkgs that would allow maintainers to merge changes to their packages without having the commit bit Yes, pretty pretty please. This would enable a lot of things for us | 11:32:35 |
 tea | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
One of my extremely backburner projects is something like bors for nixpkgs that would allow maintainers to merge changes to their packages without having the commit bit yes | 11:34:26 |
| Wanja Hentze | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
One of my extremely backburner projects is something like bors for nixpkgs that would allow maintainers to merge changes to their packages without having the commit bit yesss | 11:34:36 |
| tea | I think that was discussed in last archteam meeting? | 11:34:39 |
| Wanja Hentze | I shilled bors there yeah | 11:34:53 |
| K900 | The problem is we can't really just do bors because it doesn't understand this kind of thing | 11:35:19 |
| K900 | And any time I think about how to do it properly it ends up in "rewrite hydra lol" | 11:35:54 |
| Wanja Hentze | it doesn't? | 11:35:57 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
The problem is we can't really just do bors because it doesn't understand this kind of thing We are large enough to need our own solution, yes | 11:36:12 |
| K900 | It doesn't understand "this person is the maintainer for this package and should be allowed to merge changes to it" | 11:37:00 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
And any time I think about how to do it properly it ends up in "rewrite hydra lol" You really mean Hydra here or rather OfBorg? | 11:37:06 |
| K900 | Both | 11:37:12 |
| K900 | The fact that they're two different things is part of the issue tbh | 11:37:31 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | Nah, just start your own thing next to OfBorg. I think the GitHub lock-in battle is lost anyways for us, so better embrace it and split it up into smaller pieces | 11:37:44 |
| Wanja Hentze | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
It doesn't understand "this person is the maintainer for this package and should be allowed to merge changes to it" it supports CODEOWNERS, that can do the trick as long as file granularity is good enough | 11:38:39 |
