Re: Release v1.4 (or 2.0): process and schedule ?

[Chris Marusich]

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Chris,
>
> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> About the current status, I'm nearing on pushing a version-1.4.0 branch
>>> which is based on master with a few more (core-ish) updates.  There's
>>> still a few days ahead of that, so if you manage to get many of this
>>> kind of problems fixed & merged in master they can easily be included in
>>> the next release.
>>
>> There is a problem that currently prevents "guix pull" from succeeding
>> for powerpc64le-linux on master.  I'd like to resolve it before the
>> release if possible.  The problem is here, including a patch to fix it:
>>
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=52940
>>
>> [...]
>
> Since the version-1.4.0 branch I've been polishing locally still hasn't
> been published nor built, there's still time to apply the patch without
> any consideration for world rebuilds to that branch (at this point we
> want the changes to be low risk ones though, but that sounds like one).

With Ludo's feedback, I was able to fix 52940 without rebuilding the
world in commit 195bb1fb9d55d8e5187d669c63a3cde747fc5f64 on master.  Can
you try merging master into your version-1.4.0 branch?

At this point in time, I'm unaware of any issues that would be
show-stoppers for for powerpc64le-linux.  As a reminder, issues
important to powerpc64le-linux can be seen by searching for issues
tagged with the "guix" user's powerpc64le-linux Debbugs usertag:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=powerpc64le-linux;users=guix

I'll keep my eye out for other potential powerpc64le-linux issues and
see what I can do to help in the days/weeks to come.

Now that the "guix" package is building successfully again on master, I
can finally build up-to-date versions of cuirass and
guix-build-coordinator.  Although it isn't directly related to the
release, I think I will resume my efforts to add a new powerpc64le-linux
node to the build farm.

-- 
Chris

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