Release v1.4?

[zimoun]

Hi,

It is time for a release!  We were almost there on January… time
flies. ;-)

Many things are pending and I feel we need a small impulsion for a
general motivation. :-)

Well, it seems conditioned by the status of the build farms.  Is all
fine in this area?


Schedule a release is the occasion to tackle some not-so-fun tasks as
merging the ’staging’ branch [1], many upgrades as Haskell [2] or Julia,
etc.

Even, it could also be the occasion to complete the purge of Python 2. :-)

Vagrant proposed [3] to fix low-hanging fruit issues in synopsis and
description.  It is an occasion for a meetup [4].

For instance, a release date on July could be neat.  WDYT?


Please comment bug#53214 [5] or answer to this message for listing the
blocking points; as discussed in this thread [6].


1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/878rrn5vy3.fsf@inria.fr>
2: <https://yhetil.org/guix/Yl/9/Ly/WevaVxlj@noor.fritz.box>
3: <https://yhetil.org/guix/877dbxznto.fsf@ponder>
4: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87pmmkt6k2.fsf@contorta>
5: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/53214>
6: <https://yhetil.org/guix/86ilvnh7kt.fsf@gmail.com>


Cheers,
simon