From: Cayetano Santos <csantosb@inventati.org>
To: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com>,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On the quest for a new release model
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:28:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyhvo8dd.fsf@inventati.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87seqrbmwy.fsf@gmail.com> (Suhail Singh's message of "Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:52:29 -0500")
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>ven. 13 déc. 2024 at 10:52, Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com> writes:
>
>> We only need a release team and a documented release process. Releases
>> should be scheduled rather than depending on other teams. What benefit
>> is there to the Guix user when glibc or the default gcc are updated?
>> You're only a "guix pull" away from updated packages.
>>
>> As I recall, one issue for past releases was having to freeze all
>> development on the master branch. With the new teams-branches model
>> the release-team branch is just another branch, moving to the queue
>> when ready to cut a new release.
>
> My sentiments precisely. Thank you, Greg, for describing the situation
> clearly.
Let me just play the dummies advocate for a moment, before leaving the
room to most experienced people: consider the army of regular potential
users not necessarily concerned about monads, variants and derivations
(or even substitutes).
They will be doing `whatever install guix`, and then they’ll happily
start using guix: with a bit of documentation, they’ll love it. This is
all they need to know. Don’t tell them to do a `python pull`, `firefox
pull` or `guix pull`. It comes to the same for them: they won’t
understand.
Once they get used to use guix daily, they’ll care about pulls, channels
or asking support for guix on the cluster.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-13 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-09 12:19 Discussion notes on releases and branches Andreas Enge
2023-02-12 21:13 ` Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Josselin Poiret
2023-02-12 21:34 ` Andreas Enge
2023-02-13 9:32 ` Time for RFC? (was Re: Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches)) zimoun
2023-02-13 14:07 ` Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 19:12 ` Leo Famulari
2023-02-13 9:22 ` Release (was " Simon Tournier
2023-02-14 10:14 ` Rust team branch " Efraim Flashner
2023-02-14 16:36 ` Rust team branch Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 20:07 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-02-16 10:56 ` Andreas Enge
2023-02-14 16:36 ` Rust team branch (was Re: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-02-14 20:08 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-02-15 17:49 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-03-17 15:24 ` Discussion notes on releases and branches Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-03-18 17:42 ` Leo Famulari
2024-12-13 8:37 ` On the quest for a new release model (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches) Cayetano Santos
2024-12-13 12:03 ` On the quest for a new release model Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-13 13:01 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 15:21 ` Greg Hogan
2024-12-13 15:52 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 16:05 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 16:28 ` Cayetano Santos [this message]
2024-12-13 17:21 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 20:34 ` Cayetano Santos
2024-12-13 22:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-12-13 22:27 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 23:08 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-12-14 1:38 ` John Kehayias via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-12-13 16:04 ` Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-12-13 17:47 ` Suhail Singh
2024-12-13 20:14 ` Tomas Volf
2024-12-13 22:13 ` Suhail Singh
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