Re: New release soon?

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
>>
>>> Considering the change to guile-gcrypt and the bugs we have found and
>>> fixed since 0.15 I think we should release 0.16.0 soon.
>>>
>>> Or perhaps a maintenance 0.15.1 if the features added do not hold up
>>> to a minor release.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> The next release will hopefully be 1.0.0.  We wanted to get this
>> released sometime before FOSDEM 2019.
>
> I think it could be useful to do a 0.16 release in the interim, since
> it's difficult to build 0.15 from source currently (because of the
> broken Python test in 'master' which OOMs (on) many kernels).
>
> The many "guix pull" and UI improvements would also be nice to have "out
> of the box" on new installs.

I agreed.  I’m all for a 0.16 release within a couple of weeks.

Initially I thought we may want to wait for core-updates to be merged,
but it looks like we have troubles focusing on that ;-), so I don’t
know.  Thoughts?

Ludo’.