improve the speed rockcraft's iterative design experience
Metadata
Current evaluation
Request to speed repeated rockcraft pack runs with smarter caching; remains open, unlabelled, and apparently untriaged despite a clear developer-productivity goal.
Suggested action: needs triage
Reason: The issue has no labels, comments, or maintainer response. Although it identifies repeated pack latency and compares it with Docker builds, it provides no timings, affected project types, measured bottleneck, cache semantics, or acceptance criteria, so lifecycle profiling and cache-invalidation design are required.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Impact:
57
Quick Win:
6
Complexity:
72
Confidence:
91
Actionability:
40
Issue body
### What needs to get done
Sped up the iterative design experience of using rockcraft. For example, this could be through more advanced caching between `rockcraft pack` calls. iiuc there is caching already (some things are preserved unless you do `rockcraft clean`), but it feels like the current state doesn't hit the right balance and more would be possible.
As an example, if I am fixing a `RUN` directive in a dockerfile I can edit the file, rebuild, and likely docker starts building exactly where I left off last time due to caching (process takes a few seconds). The comparable experience in rockcraft is slower. Whether it is caching or something else that can improve this, something is missing.
### Why it needs to get done
A lot of the development time spent using rocks is in rerunning `rockcraft pack` and waiting to see if you fixed whatever problem you're trying to solve.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
57
Quick Win:
6
Complexity:
72
Confidence:
91
Actionability:
40
|
needs triage | Request to speed repeated rockcraft pack runs with smarter caching; remains open, unlabelled, and apparently untriaged despite a clear developer-productivity goal. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Impact:
60
Quick Win:
25
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
75
Actionability:
70
|
needs triage | Feature request to improve rockcraft's iterative build speed through better caching between pack calls. Open 1023 days with no maintainer response or labels. | |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
20
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
75
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Feature request to improve rockcraft pack build speed and caching for iterative development. Untriaged, no maintainer comments, inactive for over a year. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Feature request to improve rockcraft pack build speed and caching for iterative development. Untriaged, no maintainer comments, inactive for over a year. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
90
Complexity:
50
Confidence:
90
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Feature request to improve rockcraft pack build speed and caching for iterative development. Currently untriaged with zero maintainer comments and inactive for over a year. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
65
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Feature request to improve rockcraft build speed and iterative design through better caching. Unlabelled, zero maintainer comments, inactive for over a year. |
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