[ITA] llvm

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-06-01 14:23, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 04/05/2025 07:59, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps writes:
>>> I pushed current working files in the packages
>>> llvm
>>
>> Thereby obliterating all the work I'd done two years ago in getting the
>> packaging halfway up to speed and making it a mess again.  Not
>> impressed… :-(
> Hmm... maybe this could be arranged better.
> 
> The idea of playground branches was all a bit ad-hoc after I initially had 
> things configured to only allow pushes to master (or main, I guess, now).
> 
> Perhaps it's possible to give every maintainer a branch only they can create, 
> push, force-push, rewind and delete?
> 
> Or maybe I just need to allow branches named 'topic/*' which is the convention 
> used elsewhere on sourceware for volatile, personal branches?

If it is in a repo, it can be rewound and replayed, or merged differently, so 
nothing has been *obliterated*, although rework may be required to tidy it up!

Allowing any maintainer to use playground branches or the playground repo 
provides enough flexibility for our purposes.

Reading thru the Sourceware security policy requirements, all maintainers, 
including those not yet using cygport, like g-b-s or their personal hacks, 
should check in *ALL* build scripts required and include them in their source 
packages, to provide an externally reproducible source of packages.

I have been uncomfortable for a long time with packages which can be rebuilt or 
updated only by their maintainers, who rarely seem to monitor the mailing lists.

If anything ever happens to their systems, they may be unable to rebuild or 
update their packages, and there will be no possible alternatives, other than 
starting from scratch.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry