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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.67 X-Spam-Score: -6.67 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 030B8358E5 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx2.migadu.com X-TUID: owOdgvn6ecqj Hi Leo, On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 02:04 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > Hello, > > For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by > myself. Now I want some more people to help with this. > Just wanted to say thanks for this work that goes on mostly behind the scenes; I've never had any kernel hiccups related to Guix. Let's hope I didn't just jinx that, but our rollbacks and generation selection at boot actually make it a lot less painful to experiment here. John > The work itself is fairly mechanical and updates occur about once a > week. It takes about 30 minutes to prepare the patches and push them to > CI or send them to the mailing list. > > When a new major kernel version is released, then we also need to make a > new kernel config file, which takes a few hours in total. > > There is plenty of support for the CI and QA infrastructure to build the > kernels, so you don't need a powerful computer. > > This isn't the sort of the task that needs to be performed by a single > person. The work could be spread, like most other packages in Guix. > > If you want to join in, please reply! > > Leo