Re: preparing the next release v0.15.0

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 2018-06-19 14:36, Marius Bakke a écrit :
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Guix,
> >
> > I wrote almost 6 days ago:
> >
> > > Here are a bunch of things that we should look into:
> > >
> > > * Outstanding patches.  There are many patches in the queue at
> > >   guix-patches[1] that we should go through, comment on, and/or apply
> > >   before the release.  Who would like to join a task force to do that
> > >   together?  Let’s pick 5 patches each and review them so that we can
> > >   either comment to ask for changes or to apply them.
> > >
> > >   [1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=guix-patches
> > >
> > > * breakage since the last core-updates merge.  Since the long overdue
> > >   merge of the “core-updates” branch we have a few serious problems 
> > > on
> > >   i686 (e.g. the gst-plugins-base package) and armhf.  Who would like 
> > > to
> > >   lead an effort to investigate and fix these problems?  (Note: you
> > >   obviously don’t need to fix them yourself, just keep track of these
> > >   things and coordinate with others who investigate them.)
> > >
> > > * collecting new features and big changes in NEWS.  The NEWS file
> > >   already lists some of the changes that the next release would 
> > > provide
> > >   compared to 0.14.0, but we all know that there are more.  Who would
> > >   like to take charge of the NEWS file?  This involves asking people 
> > > for
> > >   changes they would really like to be mentioned and coordinating 
> > > with
> > >   other volunteers to search through all commits since v0.14.0 to 
> > > find
> > >   noteworthy changes.
> > […]
> > > Did I miss anything?  Who wants to help?
> >
> > We aim for a release on June 30, 2018.  Unfortunately, so far nobody 
> > has
> > come forward to help us coordinate one of these three tasks.
>
> Hello!
>
> Thanks for this writeup.  I live a somewhat nomadic lifestyle at the
> moment, and recently my phone was stolen, so I'm only online very
> sporadically.
>
> There is one bug I'll try to fix before the release: when doing an EFI
> install, the ESP must be mounted at "/boot/efi" on the live system,
> instead of relative to the mounted system (e.g. "/mnt/boot/efi").  This
> is a regression since 0.13.
>
> On the NEWS side, here is what springs to mind:
>
> * `guix weather` now reports CI statistics
> * Guix will give hints for how to resolve common configuration errors
> * RHEL6 systems are again supported
> * Reproducibility improvements all around
> * Lots of new supported AArch64 boards
> * Packages can specify that some CVEs don't apply to them
> * `guix pack --relocatable` :-)
>
> Others?

* guix manual can now be translated and is partially translated into 
French

:)