From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: some questions about GUIX Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:10:39 +0100 Message-ID: <8760zg26mo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1ttmdbd.fsf@gmail.com> <87a8ot47wr.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb7h1cwh.fsf@gmail.com> <87a8otax38.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3Pk-00011e-71 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:10:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aE3Pg-00034O-0u for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:10:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a8otax38.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:11:55 +0100") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Sam Halliday writes: > >> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: [...] >>> Guix=E2=80=99s build daemon uses containers to perform isolated builds: >>> >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Features.html >> >> Interesting. I wonder if you wouldn't benefit from a docker / drone >> network, just as a distribution mechanism for your own build farm. It >> would be a shame to expend effort on that since it is somewhat something >> of a solved problem (and purely a DevOps matter, not a user concern). > > Work is under way to distribute build artifacts over GNUnet. Currently > it is already possible to share build results over HTTP. Ideally, > package building is a distributed effort. (We aren=E2=80=99t there yet.) There=E2=80=99s also the offloading mechanism, which may be closer to what = Sam was mentioning: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Daemon-Offload-Setup.h= tml >>>> * Issue tracker / comm channels >>>> >>>> Will you be continuing to use debbugs, savannah and mailing lists going >>>> forward or would you consider moving to a modern community management >>>> system like gitlab? >>> >>> I hear the appeal of GitLab and the like. However, as was recently >>> discussed on guix-devel, while I think we must find ways to improve our >>> workflows (for instance, tracking patches is becoming tricky), I don=E2= =80=99t >>> see us moving to one of those web-based approaches for several reasons: >>> >>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg00429.html >> >> I've never used GitLab, but I understand that it is free software. The >> thread above seems to suggest that it is proprietary. > > There are two variants AFAIU; the hosted GitLab service uses the > proprietary version. Right, gitlab.com runs =E2=80=9CGitLab EE=E2=80=9D, which is proprietary. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.