Re: Release v1.4 (or 2.0): process and schedule ?

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Vagrant,

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

> On 2021-12-19, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Now core-updates-frozen is merged.  Now The Big Change [1 ]is done.  Do
>>> we go for v1.4 or v2.0?
>>
>> As I've mentioned previously, I'd go for a 1.4.0 release, since overall
>> we've refined and improved (greatly!) what we already had rather than
>> introduced something revolutionary.  I'd keep a 2.0.0 for when we have
>> p2p distributed substitutes, a custom graphical tool and/or integration
>> with the 'Software' application in GNOME, this kind of big user-facing
>> changes.  But that's just my personal opinion :-).  If the majority
>> feels a 2.0.0 is more suitable, I won't mind.
>>
>>> In both case, what is the target for a release date?  I propose January
>>> 31rst.  WDYT?
>>
>> I'd like to fix #52051 before issuing the first release candidate (RC).
>> Assuming this can be made before the end of January with the first RC
>> coming out around New Year, and that the kind of collaboration I've seen
>> in the last weeks continues at the same intensity, this seems
>> achievable.
>
> Would it be appropriate to fix the ~700 low-hanbging fruit issues that
> are identified by:
>
>   guix lint --checkers=description,synopsis
>
> It is not the most exciting work technically, but it is relatively easy,
> and low risk, maybe the worst it does is put a bit more work on
> translators...
>
> Maybe there are also other low hanging fruit guix lint knows about that
> would not be particularly disruptive?
>
> It is not particularly urgent for a release, per se, but I suspect it
> will just grow and grow without some sort of cycle to address such
> trivial issues... and doing such cleanup before making a release would
> aim for a higher standard of craftspersonship. :)

About the current status, I'm nearing on pushing a version-1.4.0 branch
which is based on master with a few more (core-ish) updates.  There's
still a few days ahead of that, so if you manage to get many of this
kind of problems fixed & merged in master they can easily be included in
the next release.

HTH,

Maxim