Hi Vagrant, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> writes:
> On 2021-12-19, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >> zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Now core-updates-frozen is merged. Now The Big Change [1 ]is done. Do >>> we go for v1.4 or v2.0? >> >> As I've mentioned previously, I'd go for a 1.4.0 release, since overall >> we've refined and improved (greatly!) what we already had rather than >> introduced something revolutionary. I'd keep a 2.0.0 for when we have >> p2p distributed substitutes, a custom graphical tool and/or integration >> with the 'Software' application in GNOME, this kind of big user-facing >> changes. But that's just my personal opinion :-). If the majority >> feels a 2.0.0 is more suitable, I won't mind. >> >>> In both case, what is the target for a release date? I propose January >>> 31rst. WDYT? >> >> I'd like to fix #52051 before issuing the first release candidate (RC). >> Assuming this can be made before the end of January with the first RC >> coming out around New Year, and that the kind of collaboration I've seen >> in the last weeks continues at the same intensity, this seems >> achievable. > > Would it be appropriate to fix the ~700 low-hanbging fruit issues that > are identified by: > > guix lint --checkers=description,synopsis > > It is not the most exciting work technically, but it is relatively easy, > and low risk, maybe the worst it does is put a bit more work on > translators... > > Maybe there are also other low hanging fruit guix lint knows about that > would not be particularly disruptive? > > It is not particularly urgent for a release, per se, but I suspect it > will just grow and grow without some sort of cycle to address such > trivial issues... and doing such cleanup before making a release would > aim for a higher standard of craftspersonship. :) 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. HTH, Maxim