Status of GNOME?

Status of GNOME?

[Alex via]

Hello all.

For quite long time (little less than year) I'm using Guix System as VM guest. I noticed that GNOME is still on 3.34. I assume that cause is lack of man power instead of technical obstacles, considering that other non-systemd distributions (like Gentoo for example) are on 3.40?

My question is: how can I help? What is the path to become contributor? To ask for guidance and mentorship is probably to much to ask, but some general directives are more than welcome.

Thank you,
Alex

Re: Status of GNOME?

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 15:27, Alex via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

> For quite long time (little less than year) I'm using Guix System as VM guest. I noticed that GNOME is still on 3.34. I assume that cause is lack of man power instead of technical obstacles, considering that other non-systemd distributions (like Gentoo for example) are on 3.40?

New version is coming soon.  After the merge of core-updates-frozen. :-)

> My question is: how can I help? What is the path to become contributor? To ask for guidance and mentorship is probably to much to ask, but some general directives are more than welcome.

You can run:

  guix pull --branch=core-updates-frozen

and upgrade your system.  Report the failures.  Note that it is
possible that substitutes are missing; maybe check using "guix
weather" the availability if you cannot or do not want to burn CPU.
:-)


Hope that helps,
simon

Re: Status of GNOME?

[Luis Felipe]

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Hi, zimoun :)

On Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 at 2:32 PM, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> 

> You can run:
> 

> guix pull --branch=core-updates-frozen
> 

> and upgrade your system. Report the failures. Note that it is
> 

> possible that substitutes are missing; maybe check using "guix
> 

> weather" the availability if you cannot or do not want to burn CPU.

Is there a way to see this information on the web (https://ci.guix.gnu.org/)? Say, substitute availability for packages in core-updates-frozen (x86_64-linux).

The machine I use is not capable of building much, and running "guix weather -s x86_64-linux" takes a lot of time.

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Re: Status of GNOME?

[zimoun]

Hi Luis,

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 21:09, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to see this information on the web (https://ci.guix.gnu.org/)? Say, substitute availability for packages in core-updates-frozen (x86_64-linux).

An entry point is: <https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/core-updates-frozen>.
Otherwise, try in search field: spec:core-updates-frozen
system:x86_64-linux julia-1.6.3 (replace julia-1.6.3 by your
interest).


> The machine I use is not capable of building much, and running "guix weather -s x86_64-linux" takes a lot of time.

Usually, I do not run "guix weather" alone but only for the package of
interest, say "guix weather emacs vim julia". If you are applying a
manifest discipline, then "guix weather -m manifest.scm".


Hope that helps,
simon

Re: Status of GNOME?

[Luis Felipe]

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On Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 at 8:30 PM, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Luis,
> 

> On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 21:09, Luis Felipe luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com wrote:
> 

> > Is there a way to see this information on the web (https://ci.guix.gnu.org/)? Say, substitute availability for packages in core-updates-frozen (x86_64-linux).
> 

> An entry point is: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/core-updates-frozen.
> 

> Otherwise, try in search field: spec:core-updates-frozen
> 

> system:x86_64-linux julia-1.6.3 (replace julia-1.6.3 by your
> 

> interest).

Uh, I forgot the search box displays help on how to search once you focus it, thanks. 


The last build of gnome-desktop succeeded:

https://ci.guix.gnu.org/search?query=spec%3Acore-updates-frozen+system%3Ax86_64-linux+gnome-desktop

And there seems to be 88% substitute availability for the packages in my profile. I think I'll give this branch a try.

Thanks,

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