From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Build machine sysadmin support Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:33:45 +0200 Message-ID: <8737lp2cae.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bn0pp58b.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1be1AD-0001OV-9t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:34:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1be1AC-0006im-J8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:34:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Craven's message of "Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:42:48 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel , guix-sysadmin@gnu.org, Nacho Gonzalez David Craven skribis: >> Also, all the sysadmin work will happen in a bunch of Scheme files, >> which means that everyone can now contribute to sysadmin, without >> necessarily having shell access to the machines. No excuses! :-) > > Is there a reason why this isn't in gnu/system/examples? It=E2=80=99s mostly that it=E2=80=99s a quick hack that is specific to this= build machine use case. But yeah, it may be that a generalized form of these modules could end up in Guix proper, either as examples or as an API. I think we need to gain experience with it before we can decide what to do. Ludo=E2=80=99.