Re: Release v1.4?

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hello,

vidak@riseup.net writes:

> On 2022-06-06 01:57, zimoun wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Fri, 03 Jun 2022 at 18:41, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>   guix time-machine --branch=staging -- …
>>>
>>> Remaining things to check:
>>>
>>>   - [ ] system tests
>>>   - [ ] status on non-x86_64 architectures
>> 
>> I agree.  To me, it is part of the same effort.  From my point of view,
>> we missed the window for releasing at the previous core-updates merge.
>> I would like to avoid to miss it. :-)
>> 
>> Somehow, we all have various constraints on our agenda so if we do not
>> set some deadlines in advance, it is hard to free some slots compared to
>> the continuous other “urgent” tasks from elsewhere.
>> 
>> My email is a call (July is a proposal) for synchronizing our agenda and
>> agree on some deadlines and make them happen.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> simon
>
> can i help with the system tests?
>
> how do i do those?

You can run them locally with 'make check-system' (beware: some are
expensive).

Thanks!

Maxim