Re: Release progress, week 10

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi!

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 17:38, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> If everything goes well, I plan to publish the release on Monday, 19th.
>> Time to get to your instrument for a release song or whatever other
>> performance you feel like making!  :-)
>
> It reminds me the announce on hpc.guix.info.  Well, I am not have the
> time before Monday to collect the changes.  I can draft on Monday.

Would be great!

> The draft of the announce for the Guix website LGTM.  I will try to
> write a paragraph about «Supporting long-term reproducibility» (SWH
> fallback for channels and Disarchive) on Monday morning.  If you want to
> proceed before, go ahead. :-)

I wrote a couple of paragraphs about this and other things yesterday
(tried to keep it relatively short).  Let me know if you think
anything’s missing.

> I still think that it would be worth to mention the removal of many
> Python 2 packages and that the project stops to maintain Python 2
> packages.  I know it appears in NEWS but it costs nothing to restate
> because many people are not reading all the details of all. :-)

Oh right, I’ll add a few lines.

Thanks!

Ludo’.