From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: New release soon? Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:15:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87ftw0u3kw.fsf@elephly.net> References: <588d8f0c-703e-7897-b9b8-39d29c453854@riseup.net> <8736s3vq6l.fsf@elephly.net> <875zwz5yq4.fsf@fastmail.com> <87o9aovqor.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]:56440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNlT5-0004zE-0H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:15:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNlT2-0007qk-Ce for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:15:58 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNlT2-0007qN-5H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:15:56 -0500 In-reply-to: <87o9aovqor.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, >> I think it could be useful to do a 0.16 release in the interim, since >> it's difficult to build 0.15 from source currently (because of the >> broken Python test in 'master' which OOMs (on) many kernels). >> >> The many "guix pull" and UI improvements would also be nice to have "out >> of the box" on new installs. > > I agreed. I=E2=80=99m all for a 0.16 release within a couple of weeks. > > Initially I thought we may want to wait for core-updates to be merged, > but it looks like we have troubles focusing on that ;-), so I don=E2=80= =99t > know. Thoughts? I would prefer to have core-updates in the next release. This has been delayed for much too long. This would also avoid the bad look for a new release to have somewhat outdated core packages. If we can=E2=80=99t get core-updates ready within the next few weeks I won= =E2=80=99t object to a release without it, but I think we should really try. -- Ricardo