Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

[Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>]

Pjotr Prins transcribed 2.9K bytes:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 05:18:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > #+TITLE: Roadmap for Guix 1.0, 2018
> > #+STARTUP: hidestars
> > 
> > * 'guix pull' & co.
> > ** TODO 'guix pull' honors ~/.config/guix/channels.scm
> > *** (guix channels) module provides easy way to build a set of channels
> > *** (guix inferior) uses that to allow interaction with an arbitrary Guix
> > ** MAYBE 'guix pull' & commit authentication <https://bugs.gnu.org/22883>
> > ** TODO 'guix package -m' (?) allows users to specify a Guix channel
> > ** TODO Profile manifest entries record the channel instance they come from
> > ** TODO build-self.scm trampoline runs faster
> > * UI/UX
> > ** TODO Add colors for messages (error, warnings, hints, and possibly build logs)
> > ** MAYBE Hide build logs in some UIs, as in ‘wip-ui’ branch & Cuirass
> > ** MAYBE Rework grafts and profile hooks to run as “build continuations” <https://bugs.gnu.org/28310>
> > ** MAYBE Add ‘guix install’ alias
> > ** TODO Add ‘guix system --delete-generations’
> > ** MAYBE Polish & merge ‘wip-installer’
> > * core
> > ** TODO Update & merge ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’
> > ** MAYBE Merge ‘wip-gexp-hygiene’ if we have a portable way to compute gensyms
> > ** TODO Use [[https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt][Guile-gcrypt]] instead of (guix gcrypt) & co.
> > ** TODO Minimal bootstrap with Mes & co. for i686/x86_64 merged (‘wip-bootstrap’)
> > ** MAYBE Use [[https://gitlab.com/rutger.van.beusekom/gash][Gash]] instead of Bash during bootstrap
> > * infrastructure
> > ** TODO ci.guix.gnu.org points to berlin.guixsd.org
> > ** TODO ci.guix.gnu.org is the default substitute server; hydra.gnu.org is deprecated
> > ** TODO ARM build machines (+ qemu-binfmt) added behind berlin.guixsd.org
> > ** TODO Tatiana's web UI deployed on berlin.guixsd.org
> > ** TODO Clément's Cuirass improvements deployed (inputs, non-blocking SQLite, etc.)
> > ** TODO web site available at guix.gnu.org
> > *** DNS already set up with two entries, but how to do deal with LE certs and all?
> > ** TODO Mumi web UI available at patches.guix.gnu.org and bugs.guix.gnu.org
> > ** TODO berlin.guixsd.org has big storage, uses a TTL > 60 days
> > ** TODO Nar bandwidth issues on berlin fixed (nginx misconfiguration?)
> > * miscellaneous
> > ** TODO “GuixSD” renamed to “Guix System”?
> > ** TODO “Cuirass” renamed to “Guix CI”?
> 
> Are these all really necessary for 1.0? Or can it be 1.1? I think we
> are pushing ourselves too much to have all deployment tools and
> website stuff aligned ;)

I think it's okay. In the end version numbers are just numbers. We are
at 0.15, so we can go all the way up to 1.0 with many version releases
between to fit in parts of 1.0.

> Q: how large a big storage do we need for TTL>60d today? I don't have
> a build farm in the USA, but I can create a mirror if you allow rsync
> and have guix publish running on guix.genenetwork.org (or any name,
> really). Is that of interest?
> 
> Pj.
> 
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