From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Feedback from JRES in Dijon Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:06:57 +0100 Message-ID: <877e34m7ny.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8D474474-AF4C-4B03-9D38-3BB089BEE4EB@lepiller.eu> 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]:36289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ieiyT-0008Hd-F0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:07:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8D474474-AF4C-4B03-9D38-3BB089BEE4EB@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:16:23 +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.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Julien Lepiller Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Julien, Julien Lepiller skribis: > I presented the project at JRES yesterday and had lots of questions > and reactions. Thanks for the nice talk and for sharing feedback! It=E2=80=99s really gre= at to see how each one of us approaches it from a different angle, and I think you chose the right one for this audience (mostly sysadmins). (The install/remove example on the first slide is of course questionable, but the rest is great. ;-)) > One person was wondering whether Guix would be a good idea for there > cluster. I said yes then I redirected them to guix hpc. Neat, I hope we=E2=80=99ll hear from them. :-) > Another wanted to have some kind of doi for guix describe + manifest > (a better UI and easier thing to cite in a paper I suppose). I guess a single Git commit ID or, better, a Software Heritage intrinsic ID could fit the bill. > Another was asking about the possibility ofusing Guix to have multiple > kernels and boot a debian with guix's kernel (so as to choose a > compatible kernel at boot iiuc). Uh, an unusual use case. > The person I talked to at lunch was a bit skeptical about Guix. They > have it and Nix, with module on their cluster. They told me they were > more concerned about replicability than reproducibility. Also, their > users are lost between the options, they have trouble getting help on > guix from their admins and they end up using conda, yet another tool > ^^". Ah well, there=E2=80=99s a learning curve. Now, my hope is that people who manage to do =E2=80=9Cconda install=E2=80=9D would also manage to get start= ed with =E2=80=9Cguix install=E2=80=9D. But that=E2=80=99s more and more of a social issue (spre= ading the word) than a technical one, I think. Anyway, nice work! If you want we can have the PDF of your talk (and the article you wrote at !) on the web site, perhaps with a tiny blog post giving some context. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99. PS: I also got positive feedback from a colleague who attended your talk. :-)