Hello Guix! When we said we’d try to release 1.0 for FOSDEM, we were talking about FOSDEM *2019*, which is well over now, so I think we need to get our act together and complete the remaining tasks for 1.0. :-)
Looking at the <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org> plus my own memories, here are work items that still need to be addressed: • The graphical installer has been merged (yay!) but we still need to discuss it in the manual and to test it some more. • The installer should be changed to produce the right ‘initrd-modules’ field, using the same mechanism used by ‘check-device-initrd-modules’. • The story about grafts and displaying upfront what’s going to be built is not fixed yet. I’ve been toying with the build continuations but nothing conclusive yet. I’ve also thought about quick hacks instead but nothing concrete either. • IPv6 support in ‘static-networking-service’: as discussed at the Guix Days, we’ll probably need to Linux Netlink sockets to do that rather than the old ioctls currently used in (guix build syscalls). The netlink interface for network config is vaguely documented at <https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/generic_netlink_howto>. Writing bindings for ‘sendmsg’ and the associated data structures looks reasonable… it just needs to be done. • GDM works well for GNOME and WMs that provide a .session file. However it still doesn’t honor ~/.xsession. We discussed it before and dropped the ball. Timothy, what’s missing? I’d really like to make it the default. • GDM’s closure is 1.3 GiB, we should do something about it. • I think we should add ‘guix install’, ‘guix remove’, and ‘guix upgrade’. • “GuixSD” has been removed from the web site and from almost all of the source code. Still need to fix the file names that appear in Makefile.am. • Work for guix.gnu.org is on its way thanks to Julien, hopefully done soon. If you’re interesting in tackling a specific issue, please share. Let’s all tackle these so we can finally reach that milestone and celebrate! Ludo’.
