Re: Planning for the next release

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

>    1. ‘core-updates’ merged.  We’re almost there!
>
>    2. ‘wip-installer’ 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 “beta” 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’s quite a big chunk of code
>       and we don’t want the branch to block indefinitely.  So we can do
>       that quick process, and then incrementally improve it if needed.
>       I think it’s 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 ‘operating-system’ 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 “legacy”, 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’m not sure exactly what needs to be done.  Thoughts?
>
>    4. Fix low-hanging fruits at <https://bugs.gnu.org/guix>; your help
>       welcome!

I’m going to be mostly away for a week, but it would be nice if we could
release after that, wouldn’t it?

I think we’ll have to postpone work on the installer though since that
would leave too little time now.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.