Re: Policy proposal (draft): Don't push knowingly broken or work-in-progress work to dist git

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:35:44AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:31 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 25. 01. 21 16:19, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > I'm fully in favor of this and I'd really like to see us add some
> > > degree of CI gating to support it.
> >
> > Note that unfortunately CI gating happens too late. It has no capability to
> > block commits that fail to build, because it only tests successful builds and
> > because it only tests already pushed changes. CI on Pull Requests can solve
> > this, but many packagers seem to be very much agianst the idea of sending PRs to
> > packages they maintain themselves :(
> >
> 
> There are still ways around this; we could disallow direct pushes to
> release branches.

Please don't do this, the PR workflow is annoyingly complex and next
to impossible to automate, compared to doing a simple git push.

Rich.

> Yes, there are always going to be people who reject any new approach
> we might take, but we should carefully consider whether "some/many
> packagers are mildly annoyed" exceeds the potential gains inherent in
> fewer broken builds and composes.
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