From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Re: Plan for a release! Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:47:39 -0500 Message-ID: <86lfoqy8h0.fsf@dismail.de> References: <87pne3d5t6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35115) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j6cR3-0003CR-Pc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:47:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6cR2-00043V-EV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:47:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.dismail.de ([78.46.223.134]:26252) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j6cR1-00042D-S8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:47:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 345d3cad for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:47:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de ( [10.240.26.11]) by mx1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6d500d67 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:47:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 3a7379f2 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:47:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 921ad2a8 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:47:42 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87pne3d5t6.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:38:29 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi Guix! > > I=E2=80=99m going on vacation for a bit, but I think we should finally ge= t that > release out! Here=E2=80=99s the list of things to do I have in mind: > > =E2=80=A2 We need Guile 3.0.1 to fix =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 etc. o= n AArch64 and possibly > JIT on ARMv7: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39266 > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39208 > > =E2=80=A2 More testing of the guided installer and related issues: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729 > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39712 I'll volunteer to do this on Thursday. I've got two Macbooks 7,1 and a 2008 Macbook Pro that I can test on.=20=20 > > =E2=80=A2 Fix the weird default font in GNOME Terminal, as sirgazil rep= orted > on help-guix. > > =E2=80=A2 Ensure that the desktop environments provided by the installer > actually work (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, etc.). It=E2=80=99d be great to ha= ve > automated tests for these! I do that as well this Thursday. > > =E2=80=A2 (Optionally) have an automated test that installs the binary = tarball > on Debian or similar. > > =E2=80=A2 Address as many of the bugs marked =E2=80=9Cimportant=E2=80= =9D or =E2=80=9Cserious=E2=80=9D as > possible. Should we organize a bug-squashing week? :-) > > =E2=80=A2 We already have =E2=80=9Cmake assert-binaries-available=E2=80= =9D, but at the Guix > Days we came up with the idea of having =E2=80=98guix weather > --release-critical=E2=80=99 or similar, which would ensure that all t= he > relevant jobs pass (packages, cross-builds, system tests, etc.). > I=E2=80=99ll see if I can do something in that area. > > What=E2=80=99s missing from the list? > > I don=E2=80=99t think we=E2=80=99ll wait for the =E2=80=98core-updates=E2= =80=99 merge, but who knows. > > As you see there=E2=80=99s a lot of testing in there, plus the need to ke= ep > things on track! If someone wants to be the =E2=80=9Cmaster of time=E2= =80=9D and make > sure we don=E2=80=99t enter and endless add-feature/break/fix loop, that= =E2=80=99d be > welcome! > > Thoughts? > > Ludo=E2=80=99. > --=20 Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus