Re: Release!

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:40:16AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>   1. Do we pre-register berlin’s key on GuixSD?
>>
>> I vote yes.
>>
>>>   2. Do we add berlin.guixsd.org to the list of substitute servers on
>>>      GuixSD?  On Guix?  The drawback is that ‘guix’ sometimes talks to
>>>      both servers when retrieve substitute lists, which can be slightly
>>>      slower/annoying, but otherwise I think it’s a win.
>>
>> I think it's worth the extra source of substitutes. Since adding
>> berlin.guixsd.org to my list of substitute URLs, it seems like I need to
>> build less often.
>>
>> In my experience, it's annoying to query multiple servers when my
>> network connection is slow or unreliable. But, it's also annoying in
>> that situation to need to download source files from a variety of
>> upstream sites.
>
> I’d like to add berlin.guix.org to the list of default substitute
> servers, but before I can allow this with a good conscience I need to
> increase space on the head node.  We were very busy, so the new head
> node and storage aren’t ready yet, and the old node that’s currently
> coordinating builds on berlin.guix.org has very limited storage.
>
> I’ll try to get the new storage ready on Monday.

Awesome.  Let us know how it goes and what we should do!

Thanks,
Ludo’.