From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: preparing the next release v0.15.0 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:36:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87tvpzlzq5.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <87in6mbdkt.fsf@elephly.net> <87tvpzvntv.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVFsY-0007SX-Bv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:36:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVFsT-0007kv-Jy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:36:58 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:39811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVFsT-0007ko-D0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:36:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tvpzvntv.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus , guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=E2=80=99s pick 5 patches each and review them so that w= e can >> either comment to ask for changes or to apply them. >> >> [1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=3Dguix-patches >> >> * breakage since the last core-updates merge. Since the long overdue >> merge of the =E2=80=9Ccore-updates=E2=80=9D branch we have a few serio= us 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=E2=80=99t 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. >> > [=E2=80=A6] >> 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? --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAlso+OIACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPq0wggAj7yumhh7TO0XjmuCRg3lo1+jOMHpYEqOe3/JXIXyvYrdWOw2OhrYTBu5 1DSUmGYbT+82sUctmzb3aOizKsKQjr7bOoBTcNjttrFPL7b7Ft10iD3iupM2XfZG qnDUSXycZCQWX+CzhjA6W98TJb5+p+22Q+iaLqCFww6M+340V9fo5CtjYysOKk98 MpBPLokMsQDMSKuMytpXn9hmRuq67+Nn1p9blj5fO80RjC390PmLYKg6WT+jjZwY DmxYBg04XxojmVrbqtKL3pxMJ9V5LkyN+sQ4CaMbwxJYT9G2j3CWiq2e1ZG6e5DN s9dJpR9hIZLTSr3F412+JItXmIakcg== =nrM+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--