From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Planning for the next release Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:37:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpb7ym78.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48465) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ctZLE-0006H9-83 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:38:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ctZLA-0007Gi-As for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:38:16 -0400 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Guix! It=E2=80=99s time to plan for the next release! Here=E2=80=99s what we mai= ntainers think should be done for the next release, which would hopefully happen within less than a month: 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 that= . 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 of = code and we don=E2=80=99t want the branch to block indefinitely. So we ca= n 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 examples. 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.html I=E2=80=99m not sure exactly what needs to be done. Thoughts? 4. Fix low-hanging fruits at ; your help welcome! Please share your thoughts! Ludo=E2=80=99. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEPORkVYqE/cadtAz7CQsRmT2a67UFAljc/BsACgkQCQsRmT2a 67WtURAAp1ltNkF4G/9e9tF7YgexqAHSINt9NPxGI3A+0B1pOsB3DMwA44uVxZ5f CjeEZwESUxP/hd0S0jY1sFeLbWP5iUymEqSy0BSGEJ7DPl/j5reX9rD35SKMJlkm yEvSrDTG4rchulhCxPJp12nihY+zu9oLYvBOK26hv2Ipkmn10amybsxKHYNy1n3k JDL/aCbZjEvCXbQlaMcr2Cb6mA0bI7Jr1SZxLWeeCEUuMWE0L7kPrLsLpz5Wq+Bz 9TfjmTejad/1hd1KAbkmy/v6HUakri7eEvfrKx8Zuj9l84NjozudcyUneYE7e7TT 0TCoo6Q0oxcRNKfXyXcbgbqs4VmdE9q8JSzSvI+EZ/WIvAKqHoc+ciMwKOZMJkSM GExKLBTgOZ/I1fnQcedPU0s0cVO5KdGz+Vor7AEebHUCpXXNjLS9+xzGM+8jGS75 KOjc+BALzZMLfV3ikfiMJKaqcjf0hVymr546N0I2wzy7hDcTNmfgnxSgH1EO8opv xJ3CWEW7FnB8ZceZ1Z7xP/OojV38lXQNOc3zzK/zuqNOSalLo8dCmdhd201adLC5 Y1vPH8X6+quJeFMzMKIrKEUFceRcHXvn4PgijzZDlU1OKfcq22ZeqLjk7cagatXN YdKkl4mHfjSg1r1AQ7z51GPPce1w+//JpmzA9J1hKhOyDn6f9JM= =lBt7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--