On 2021-12-21, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2021-12-19, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>>> In both case, what is the target for a release date?  I propose January
>>> 31rst.  WDYT?
>>
>> I'd like to fix #52051 before issuing the first release candidate (RC).
>> Assuming this can be made before the end of January with the first RC
>> coming out around New Year, and that the kind of collaboration I've seen
>> in the last weeks continues at the same intensity, this seems
>> achievable.
>
> Would it be appropriate to fix the ~700 low-hanbging fruit issues that
> are identified by:
>
>   guix lint --checkers=description,synopsis
>
> It is not the most exciting work technically, but it is relatively easy,
> and low risk, maybe the worst it does is put a bit more work on
> translators...
>
> Maybe there are also other low hanging fruit guix lint knows about that
> would not be particularly disruptive?
>
> It is not particularly urgent for a release, per se, but I suspect it
> will just grow and grow without some sort of cycle to address such
> trivial issues... and doing such cleanup before making a release would
> aim for a higher standard of craftspersonship. :)
>
>
> I can maybe try to help stir up a coordinated effort, if folks are
> interested in pursuing this line of thinking!

Could guix style be adapted to apply some of these changes? Some of them
are simple things like trailing whitespace, for example.


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  vagrant