Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2021, #06; Mon, 16)

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 8/17/2021 12:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
...
>>> * lh/systemd-timers (2021-07-02) 3 commits
>>>   - maintenance: add support for systemd timers on Linux
>>>   - maintenance: `git maintenance run` learned `--scheduler=<scheduler>`
>>>   - cache.h: Introduce a generic "xdg_config_home_for(…)" function
>>>   "git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a
>>>   possible backend.
>>>   Waiting for reviews.
>>
>> I'd really like to see this merged, there was some discussion a couple
>> of weeks ago (cf <4aed0293-6a48-d370-3b72-496b7c631cb5@gmail.com>), it 
>> petered out but no one seemed to be objecting to merging it.
> 
> Thanks for paying attention to this item.
> 
> My impression was that everybody likes the ability to use systemd
> timers as an alternative to cron, but as Derrick summarised in the
> message you pointed at, I think the implementation is not quite
> there.
> 
> So "Waiting for reviews" is a mislabel; we are waiting for a reroll.
I think a lot of our comments were "We would hold an established
contributor to a higher standard, but this is sufficient for a new
contributor. The rest can be forward-fixed." We also have not heard
from the original contributor since that discussion.

Perhaps enough time has passed that we can expect Lénaïc will not
get back to us, I could give an attempt to forward-fix the comments
with a patch series on top of these. We could then hold
lh/systemd-timers in 'next' (or even 'seen') until it can be joined
with those fixes.

If preferred, I could restart the series by inserting some patches
and editing some of the ones in the list currently.

Thanks,
-Stolee