Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

[jbranso]

January 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM, "Steve George" <steve@futurile.net 
mailto:steve@futurile.net?to=%22Steve%20George%22%20%3Csteve%40futurile.net%3E 
> wrote:



> 
> Hi,
> 
> At 'Guix Social' we've been trying to do regular patch review sessions, along 
> with the talks and socialising. Thanks the link that Suhail gave you.
> 
> Debbugs has a system called 'usertags', we set some standardised ones and I 
> normally ask around on the mailing lists/IRC for people to tag "easy bugs" 
> that the group can review.
> 
> You are also very welcome to review some issues yourself - and the Wiki page 
> provides a process for doing that - it helps a lot!

Thanks for the invitation!  I am one of those people that has 
temporarily stepped away from guix and guix system.  When I come
back to guix, I should take a look!

I essentially had some upgrade issues that I could not resolve with guix system.
I tried following my own tutorial from my blog to build guix from source, but 
that failed too.

https://gnucode.me/guix-deploy-failed-to-update-my-guix-server.html

I think my /gnu/store/ got corrupted, and that caused some issues.  But
I have no idea really.

Anyway, I'm playing in OpenBSD land now, and maybe I have fallen for their
marketing, but I really like the idea of their secure and correct philosophy.

https://gnucode.me/openbsds-philosophy.html

I still can't configure my speaker's to play well on OpenBSD, and I miss
guix's declarative configuration.  A LOT!

 
> Steve / Futile
> 
> On 28/01/2025 05:02, Suhail Singh wrote:
> 
> > 
> > jbranso@dismail.de mailto:jbranso@dismail.de  writes:
> >  What is "patch-review-hackers-list" ? Can you send me some documentation
> > 
> > > 
> > > on how to use it?
> > > 
> >  It's one of a few tags that the london guix meetup has used in the past.
> >  See <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024> 
> > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024%3E 
> >  for details, including other related usertags such as
> >  escalated-review-request.
> >  In terms of how to review the list of packages with a given usertag,
> >  debbugs.el in Emacs provides M-x debbugs-gnu-usertags.
> >
>