From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Planning for the next release Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:27:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87shl175xc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpb7ym78.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 ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1h1X-0004OV-0C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:27:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1h1T-0007Qh-PP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:27:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wpb7ym78.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:37:47 +0200") 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: guix-devel Cc: John Darrington Hello Guix! ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis: > 1. =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 merged. We=E2=80=99re almost there! > > 2. =E2=80=98wip-installer=E2=80=99 retested, and probably merged. > > I think the prerequisite for it would be to do some more testing. > Last time people reported glitches here and there but John has > done quite a bit of work since then. John: what about doing > another round of tests? > > In the installation image, we should probably make the installer > optional and mark it as =E2=80=9Cbeta=E2=80=9D or something like th= at. That will > leave us time to iron out remaining issues, and will avoid having > people expect a rock-solid Debian-style installer. > > As far as review is concerned, we can probably do a quick and > lightweight review process since that=E2=80=99s quite a big chunk o= f code > and we don=E2=80=99t want the branch to block indefinitely. So we = can do > that quick process, and then incrementally improve it if needed. > I think it=E2=80=99s a reasonable approach given that the installer= is > mostly an independent component. > > John, everyone: thoughts? > > 3. UEFI support documented and possibly improved. > > We can certainly document the UEFI setup and add the /boot/efi > partition in some of the =E2=80=98operating-system=E2=80=99 example= s. > > The more difficult part is the installation: do we need to make a > second, UEFI-specific, installation image? When I installed > GuixSD on UEFI, I booted our installation image as =E2=80=9Clegacy= =E2=80=9D, but > then GRUB would default to a legacy install, not a UEFI install: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-12/msg00799.ht= ml > > I=E2=80=99m not sure exactly what needs to be done. Thoughts? > > 4. Fix low-hanging fruits at ; your help > welcome! I=E2=80=99m going to be mostly away for a week, but it would be nice if we = could release after that, wouldn=E2=80=99t it? I think we=E2=80=99ll have to postpone work on the installer though since t= hat would leave too little time now. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.