Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi Guix! > > I’m going on vacation for a bit, but I think we should finally get that > release out! Here’s the list of things to do I have in mind: > > • We need Guile 3.0.1 to fix ‘guix pull’ etc. on AArch64 and possibly > JIT on ARMv7: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39266 > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39208 > > • More testing of the guided installer and related issues: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729 > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39712
I'll volunteer to do this on Thursday. I've got two Macbooks 7,1 and a 2008 Macbook Pro that I can test on. > > • Fix the weird default font in GNOME Terminal, as sirgazil reported > on help-guix. > > • Ensure that the desktop environments provided by the installer > actually work (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, etc.). It’d be great to have > automated tests for these! I do that as well this Thursday. > > • (Optionally) have an automated test that installs the binary tarball > on Debian or similar. > > • Address as many of the bugs marked “important” or “serious” as > possible. Should we organize a bug-squashing week? :-) > > • We already have “make assert-binaries-available”, but at the Guix > Days we came up with the idea of having ‘guix weather > --release-critical’ or similar, which would ensure that all the > relevant jobs pass (packages, cross-builds, system tests, etc.). > I’ll see if I can do something in that area. > > What’s missing from the list? > > I don’t think we’ll wait for the ‘core-updates’ merge, but who knows. > > As you see there’s a lot of testing in there, plus the need to keep > things on track! If someone wants to be the “master of time” and make > sure we don’t enter and endless add-feature/break/fix loop, that’d be > welcome! > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’. > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus