| 5 Dec 2025 |
 emily | I hate dealing with compat and multiple versions, but if it was sufficiently streamlined and we had processes that reliably cleaned those up over time, it might be nicer than dealing with branches. | 11:05:39 |
| emily | (and even "safe" backports on stable branches do break people's deployments, sometimes) | 11:06:30 |
 lennart | (gonna catchup on backlog soonish :} ) | 11:11:27 |
| lennart | ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please reply if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, the status quo is OK and works as intended
thanks! | 12:50:56 |
| lennart | * ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please react if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, the status quo is OK and works as intended
thanks! | 12:51:03 |
| lennart | * ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please react if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, the status quo is OK and works as intended (no post)
thanks! | 12:51:17 |
| lennart | I really am undecided and don't have enough insight into this topic | 12:51:50 |
| lennart | * ok caught up: could anyone reading this who has an opinion, please react if a
👍️ if they think, I should follow through with a discourse post, to open up this discussion
👎️ if they think, no further post is needed
thanks! | 12:53:39 |
| 7 Dec 2025 |
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| 8 Dec 2025 |
 raboof | I see there's no staging-next-25.11 - does that just mean the current staging-25.11 will become staging-next-25.11? when? is there anything in particular I can do to help that along? :) | 15:53:22 |
 vcunat | We have that branch in progress now:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/468267 | 15:56:12 |
| vcunat | The general workflow is described at
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#staging | 15:57:02 |
| vcunat | (hopefully well enough - or we should fix it there) | 15:57:18 |
| raboof | huh must've missed a 'fetch' | 15:59:10 |
| 9 Dec 2025 |
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