Hello!

The GNU Hackers Meeting (GHM) took place last week, with ~50 people
including 4 Guix hackers (less than at FOSDEM!).  I found myself talking
3 times (!) about Guix, hoping the audience would not saturate. ;-)

  https://www.gnu.org/ghm/program.html

Slides online, and hopefully videos will follow:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/help/#talks

The first talk was the usual status update in which I also talked about
challenges that we face to scale up, how we address them and what
remains to be done.

On that topic, I had an interesting discussion with Nicolas Petton of
Emacs about patch tracking.  Nicolas explained that Gitlab (free
software) doesn’t have some of the technical defects that GitHub has; in
particular it can rebase instead of merging, thereby helping preserve a
linear history, and it can be dealt with “mostly” by email.  Perhaps we
could try running an instance and see what it’s like.

For the second talk, I replaced Mathieu who could not make it to the
event.  Essentially, I demoed most of the guix.el features described in
the manual, and expressed all my gratitude to Alex.  ;-)

For the last talk, I rehashed the basics since the audience wasn’t too
familiar I suppose, and then wrote a GuixSD service for OpenSSH’s ‘sshd’
(attached).  Hopefully a useful starting point and tutorial.

That’s it!

Ludo’.