Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > I wrote almost 6 days ago: > >> Here are a bunch of things that we should look into: >> >> * Outstanding patches. There are many patches in the queue at >> guix-patches[1] that we should go through, comment on, and/or apply >> before the release. Who would like to join a task force to do that >> together? Let’s pick 5 patches each and review them so that we can >> either comment to ask for changes or to apply them. >> >> [1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=guix-patches >> >> * breakage since the last core-updates merge. Since the long overdue >> merge of the “core-updates” branch we have a few serious problems on >> i686 (e.g. the gst-plugins-base package) and armhf. Who would like to >> lead an effort to investigate and fix these problems? (Note: you >> obviously don’t need to fix them yourself, just keep track of these >> things and coordinate with others who investigate them.) >> >> * collecting new features and big changes in NEWS. The NEWS file >> already lists some of the changes that the next release would provide >> compared to 0.14.0, but we all know that there are more. Who would >> like to take charge of the NEWS file? This involves asking people for >> changes they would really like to be mentioned and coordinating with >> other volunteers to search through all commits since v0.14.0 to find >> noteworthy changes. >> > […] >> Did I miss anything? Who wants to help? > > We aim for a release on June 30, 2018. Unfortunately, so far nobody has > come forward to help us coordinate one of these three tasks. Hello! Thanks for this writeup. I live a somewhat nomadic lifestyle at the moment, and recently my phone was stolen, so I'm only online very sporadically. There is one bug I'll try to fix before the release: when doing an EFI install, the ESP must be mounted at "/boot/efi" on the live system, instead of relative to the mounted system (e.g. "/mnt/boot/efi"). This is a regression since 0.13. On the NEWS side, here is what springs to mind: * `guix weather` now reports CI statistics * Guix will give hints for how to resolve common configuration errors * RHEL6 systems are again supported * Reproducibility improvements all around * Lots of new supported AArch64 boards * Packages can specify that some CVEs don't apply to them * `guix pack --relocatable` :-) Others?