improve the speed rockcraft's iterative design experience
Metadata
Current evaluation
Feature request to improve rockcraft pack build speed and caching for iterative development. Untriaged, no maintainer comments, inactive for over a year.
Suggested action: needs triage
Reason: The issue has no labels, no maintainer comments, and no assignee after 1004 days. While the repo has evolved significantly (craft-application 5, overlay features, OCI image caching service), no specific PR or commit addresses this caching/speed improvement request. The feature remains relevant as iterative development speed is a core UX concern.
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
20.0
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
75
Support Request:
10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
20.0
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. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
90
Complexity:
45
Confidence:
80
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Optimize rockcraft pack build speed for iterative development by improving build caching. Currently untriaged, inactive for over 300 days, and awaiting assignment or investigation. |
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