Releasing 0.9.1

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello!

I suggest that we release 0.9.1 as soon as we get less than 2 kernel
panic reports per day!

(Just kidding.)

Seriously, I think we should be aiming for a release by the end of the
month.  Here a few rather low-hanging fruits that I think we should
address:

  • Have a GNOME meta-package, or a ‘%gnome-packages’ variable, or
    something like that.  We should provide an example of how to get a
    GNOME setup.  I think several of you have that already.  宋文武?

  • Proper ‘package-with-python2’ (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22437>.)
    It just needs more testing and adjusting existing packages (fewer
    lines of code, yay!).

  • There are several bugs reports open regarding container-related test
    failures.  I think we should make sure they are addressed and close
    them.  David?

  • The nscd issue in the installer image: <http://bugs.gnu.org/22209>.
    I’ll try to reproduce it in a VM and debug from there.

  • Incorporate root-encryption fixes (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21843>) and
    documentation by Petter.  Petter and Albin, among others, are
    already using an encrypted-root setup AIUI, so it’s “just a matter”
    of consolidating it.  See also
    <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-01/msg00118.html>.

  • The ‘guile@1.8’ syntax patch.  Mathieu?

  • Possibly the GitHub updater, which seemed pretty much ready.  Ben?

Anything else?

I think we should all focus on these tasks and other bugs at
<http://bugs.gnu.org/guix> (help on bug triage is welcome!).

It may be that I won’t be able to handle this release myself because
I’ll soon be busy for family reasons.  :-)  I think it’s a great
opportunity to try and delegate to someone else (I have a few potential
victims in mind that I need to contact ;-)).  The whole process is
documented in ‘doc/release.org’ in guix-maintenance.git and hopefully
intelligible.

Ludo’.