Proposal: Separate the guix repo

Proposal: Separate the guix repo

[Jacob Hrbek]

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Currently it's taking me 1~4 hours (depending on the system without
outsourcing the load on high performance system) to build the guix
repository in order to be able to test the contribution and contribute
as such i am proposing to take an inspiration from Exherbo Linux and
separate the repositories, see https://gitlab.exherbo.org/exherbo

I believe that this approach has multiple advantages:
1. Significantly lower resource requirements to make a contribution
2. Better management as issue tracking can be done per repository and
enable developers who are comfortable in specified programming language
to focus on contributions there
3. It saves resources for automation as language and workflow specific
automation can have more specific trigger thus saving processing resources.
4. Cleaner git history
5. Faster system deployment as the user can specify that they don't need
e.g. engineering packages on their system
6. Much cleaner code as the packages would be separat
ed to be less
overwhelming (to reduce the files with thousands lines)

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Jacob Hrbek


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Re: Proposal: Separate the guix repo

[Ryan Prior]

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On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 4:21 AM, Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz> wrote:

> Currently it's taking me 1~4 hours (depending on the system without
>
> outsourcing the load on high performance system) to build the guix
>
> repository in order to be able to test the contribution and contribute

I have this issue too. Whether or not we split the repo, providing lightweight makefile targets that don't build everything would be great. I don't need to build all the localization stuff for every language regularly when I'm only going to be testing Guix in English, and so on with lots of tools I'm not necessarily testing.

Ryan

Re: Proposal: Separate the guix repo

[Julien Lepiller]

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You probably want "make make-packages-go" and similar targets (maybe also make-cli-go).

Le 16 janvier 2022 09:30:54 GMT+01:00, Ryan Prior <rprior@protonmail.com> a écrit :
>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
>On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 4:21 AM, Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz> wrote:
>
>> Currently it's taking me 1~4 hours (depending on the system without
>>
>> outsourcing the load on high performance system) to build the guix
>>
>> repository in order to be able to test the contribution and contribute
>
>I have this issue too. Whether or not we split the repo, providing lightweight makefile targets that don't build everything would be great. I don't need to build all the localization stuff for every language regularly when I'm only going to be testing Guix in English, and so on with lots of tools I'm not necessarily testing.
>
>Ryan
>

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