Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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Hey folks, was wondering if there would be interest in doing a virtual
meetup where we try and fix issues revealed by "guix lint".

On a fairly recently pulled guix:

  $ guix lint --checkers=description > guix-lint-description
  $ guix lint --checkers=synopsis > guix-lint-description
  $ wc -l guix-lint
  365 /home/vagrant/guix-lint-description
  169 /home/vagrant/guix-lint-synopsis
  534 total

That's over 500 mostly trivial issues to fix!

The description and synopsis fixes are generally pretty easy, so might
make for good first steps for someone wanting to get familiar with the
process of contributing without having to invest a whole lot of time and
energy.

For someone looking for slightly more adventurous things, one could try
fixing other issues guix lint knows about, or fix all issues of a
particular package, or incorporating guix lint knowledge directly into
importers, etc.!


It would be a nice bit of housecleaning. :)

Anyone interested?


I haven't really done this sort of thing virtually before; Where would
be a good place to host it?


live well,
  vagrant

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Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[Matt]

 ---- On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:04:13 -0400 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote ----
 > The description and synopsis fixes are generally pretty easy, so might
 > make for good first steps for someone wanting to get familiar with the
 > process of contributing without having to invest a whole lot of time and
 > energy.

I would like to look over the shoulder of or pair programming with someone working on Guixy things. Count me in. I think this is a great idea.

Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[zimoun]

Hi,

> I haven't really done this sort of thing virtually before; Where would
> be a good place to host it?

We are definitively lacking a BBB instance or something for that. :-)
Depending on the numbers of participants, maybe Jami could be an
option.  IIRC, a service is around (an instance is even probably
available) and the client just works with Guix (last time I tried,
thanks Maxim! :-))

Well, I like the idea of one each day, for instance the traditional
"advent calendar" done by Debian Med.  Maybe it could also an option for
this housecleaning.  Say from now until April, 18th (Happy Birthday!
:-)), let clean as much as possible: lint fixes, close irrelevant
tickets, etc.  The most productive people win a drink next time we will
meet. :-)

Another option to embark people (or for motivation) is pair programming.
It could also ease the timezone constraint.  Jérémy (jeko) wrote a nice
blog post for a quick setup using Guix.

https://rednosehacker.com/how-to-setup-a-remote-pair-programming-environment-with-gnu-guix

(It appears to me being worth to turn it into a cookbook recipe, another
story. :-))


Cheers,
simon

Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[Matt]

 ---- On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:04:13 -0400 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote ----
 > I haven't really done this sort of thing virtually before; Where would
 > be a good place to host it?

As an FSF associate member, you get access to the FSF's Jitsi meet instance (https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits). I use it regularly and it works well. I'd be happy to host it.

Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[Maxime Devos]

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zimoun schreef op vr 18-03-2022 om 10:13 [+0100]:
> maybe Jami could be an
> option.  IIRC, a service is around

IIUC, the service is not required to hold a meeting, even among more
than two parties.  IIUC, one can simply create a ‘rendezvous point’,
share the identifier and tell everyone to connect to the rendezvous
point.  No jami-service-type required unless you want to set up
moderation or a list of allowed contacts.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2022-03-17, Matt wrote:
>  ---- On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:04:13 -0400 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote ----
>  > The description and synopsis fixes are generally pretty easy, so might
>  > make for good first steps for someone wanting to get familiar with the
>  > process of contributing without having to invest a whole lot of time and
>  > energy.
>
> I would like to look over the shoulder of or pair programming with
> someone working on Guixy things. Count me in. I think this is a great
> idea.

Well, not sure if there is other overly quiet interest lurking on the
sidelines, but would be happy to figure out a time to crank through a
few of these with you!

Would it also make sense to email guix-help about it as well?


live well,
  vagrant

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Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[Remco van 't Veer]

2022/04/11 13:19, Vagrant Cascadian:

> Well, not sure if there is other overly quiet interest lurking on the
> sidelines, but would be happy to figure out a time to crank through a
> few of these with you!
>
> Would it also make sense to email guix-help about it as well?

I'd like to participate (on- or offline) and yes I think it makes sense
to include guix-help to see if there's some interest.

Cheers,
Remco

Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

[Christopher Rodriguez]

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Remco writes:
> 2022/04/11 13:19, Vagrant Cascadian:
>
>> Well, not sure if there is other overly quiet interest lurking on the
>> sidelines, but would be happy to figure out a time to crank through a
>> few of these with you!
>>
>> Would it also make sense to email guix-help about it as well?
>
> I'd like to participate (on- or offline) and yes I think it makes sense
> to include guix-help to see if there's some interest.

I would also like to participate in this. I have a big interest in
contributing, but little experience in a project as big as Guix.

--

Christopher Rodriguez

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