Re: Releasing 0.9.1

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>>   • The nscd issue in the installer image: <http://bugs.gnu.org/22209>.
>>     I’ll try to reproduce it in a VM and debug from there.
>
> Presumably fixed.

I could no longer reproduce this on any of my GuixSD machines.  All
recent reports are from users who install with the 0.9.0 release.

>>   • Incorporate root-encryption fixes (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21843>) and
>>     documentation by Petter.  Petter and Albin, among others, are
>>     already using an encrypted-root setup AIUI, so it’s “just a matter”
>>     of consolidating it.  See also
>>     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-01/msg00118.html>.
>
> Oops, I dropped the ball.  Maybe that’ll have to wait again.
>
>>   • The ‘guile@1.8’ syntax patch.  Mathieu?
>
> Almost done.
>
>>   • Possibly the GitHub updater, which seemed pretty much ready.  Ben?
>
> Done or almost.
>
> I realized that before the release, it would be nice to have
> infrastructure in place that would allow us to have a mirror of
> hydra.gnu.org (if there’s a download peak after the release, I’m afraid
> hydra.gnu.org wouldn’t be able to keep up.)  One idea is to hack ‘guix
> publish’ to make it easy to set up a mirror.  We’ll see.

This is very good idea!  I’ve been running into more problems with hydra
at our site and it would be great if we could distribute the load a
little.

~~ Ricardo