From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Plan for a release!
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:47:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lfoqy8h0.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pne3d5t6.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:38:29 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Guix!
>
> I’m going on vacation for a bit, but I think we should finally get that
> release out! Here’s the list of things to do I have in mind:
>
> • We need Guile 3.0.1 to fix ‘guix pull’ etc. on AArch64 and possibly
> JIT on ARMv7:
>
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39266
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39208
>
> • More testing of the guided installer and related issues:
>
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39712
I'll volunteer to do this on Thursday. I've got two Macbooks 7,1 and a
2008 Macbook Pro that I can test on.
>
> • Fix the weird default font in GNOME Terminal, as sirgazil reported
> on help-guix.
>
> • Ensure that the desktop environments provided by the installer
> actually work (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, etc.). It’d be great to have
> automated tests for these!
I do that as well this Thursday.
>
> • (Optionally) have an automated test that installs the binary tarball
> on Debian or similar.
>
> • Address as many of the bugs marked “important” or “serious” as
> possible. Should we organize a bug-squashing week? :-)
>
> • We already have “make assert-binaries-available”, but at the Guix
> Days we came up with the idea of having ‘guix weather
> --release-critical’ or similar, which would ensure that all the
> relevant jobs pass (packages, cross-builds, system tests, etc.).
> I’ll see if I can do something in that area.
>
> What’s missing from the list?
>
> I don’t think we’ll wait for the ‘core-updates’ merge, but who knows.
>
> As you see there’s a lot of testing in there, plus the need to keep
> things on track! If someone wants to be the “master of time” and make
> sure we don’t enter and endless add-feature/break/fix loop, that’d be
> welcome!
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.
>
--
Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-24 21:38 Plan for a release! Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-24 22:55 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-02-25 14:00 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-02-25 15:15 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-02-24 23:35 ` zimoun
2020-02-25 15:47 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2020-03-05 4:54 ` jbranso
2020-03-08 12:04 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-08 21:03 ` kmscon not working on MacBook Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-09 7:43 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-09 9:48 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-03-09 16:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-11 7:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-11 7:25 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-20 8:48 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-20 8:51 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-25 23:00 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-26 2:26 ` Bengt Richter
2020-03-26 16:53 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-29 10:26 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-08 12:35 ` Gnome takes more than 5 minutes to start Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-08 21:04 ` Btrfs/udev issue Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-05 13:42 ` Plan for a release! jbranso
2020-03-05 16:45 ` sirgazil
2020-03-06 16:32 ` Joshua Branson
2020-03-05 21:09 ` Jan
2020-03-06 16:33 ` Joshua Branson
2020-03-06 16:51 ` Thunar cannot launch gio-launch-desktop Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-06 17:57 ` Jan
2020-03-06 21:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-06 23:59 ` Jan
2020-03-07 23:41 ` Jan
2020-03-08 9:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-08 22:05 ` Jan
2020-03-08 23:41 ` Jan
2020-03-09 22:41 ` Jan
2020-03-06 6:44 ` Plan for a release! pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-06 9:58 ` John Soo
2020-03-08 12:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-08 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-12 13:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-18 16:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-18 17:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-18 17:49 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-20 10:52 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-20 13:13 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-20 13:58 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-21 15:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-23 14:05 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-26 11:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-26 12:37 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-03-26 14:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
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