Re: On the quest for a new release model

[Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> If we can agree that producing a release with lowered expectations is
> better than producing none, I don't mind to get the ball going.

I think it would be helpful to consider our approach for the upcoming
release distinctly from what we choose to do for subsequent releases.
It would help to hear Ludo's thoughts regarding the upcoming release.

> Long term I think I'd like to see for releases:
>
> 1. Simplicity - just a tag, release email, artififact uploads may be
> good enough, if we release often.
>
> 2. Automation - We already have many things automated, but it could be
> polished a bit more (such as a better tool to produce the announcement
> email), and perhaps some way to automatically test that a Guix istalled
> via guix-install.sh' in various environments work (perhaps Docker could
> help with that, having readily minimal images of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora,
> etc. to run our script on).
>
> 3. Frequency - we want to release often

Agreed on all points, but especially frequency (3).  If we aim for that,
feasibility and practicality will encourage 1 and 2.

-- 
Suhail