Re: 0.8.3 for mid-July?

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I think we should release 0.8.3 for mid to end July.
>
> That sounds good.  I guess now is a good time to mention that I will
> be AFK from July 10th to the 17th.

Noted.  I’ll be mostly AFK after July 20th.

>> The relevant things to be done include:
>>
>>   • Merging wip-diet and wip-environment, and maybe wip-container,
>>     though that one could just as well be merged afterwards.
>
> I looked at wip-environment last night and I liked what I saw.  I did
> a couple of smoke tests and everything worked as expected.  Thanks for
> figuring out some of the difficult issues there, like only including
> the relevant outputs in the environment.

Thanks for looking at it.  I’ll merge it later today, then.

> I'd really like wip-container to make it in so that we can start
> showing it off, but I'm currently blocked on a working
> eval-in-container implementation.  Perhaps I could save that for next
> release and polish what works ('guix environment --container', 'guix
> system container')?

Sure, let’s start polishing what’s already there to merge it, and then
we’ll see if we can debug ‘eval-in-container’.

Thanks!

Ludo’.