civodul pushed a commit to branch master in repository maintenance. commit 8e7676a44939a62c8e7121616150626d9f3b643d Author: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> Date: Sun Feb 4 10:44:00 2018 +0100
talks: fosdem-2018: Add "org slides" for workshop status update. --- talks/fosdem-2018/status-update.org | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) diff --git a/talks/fosdem-2018/status-update.org b/talks/fosdem-2018/status-update.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c091b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/talks/fosdem-2018/status-update.org @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +#+TITLE: GNU Guix—State of affairs + +* Welcome, Guix! +* acknowledgments + - the organizers: Manolis Ragkousis and Pjotr Prins + - the sponsors: GeneNetwork and Guix Europe + - the audience: you! +* great 2017 achievements +** Guix + - aarch64 port + - steady stream of security fixes + - ‘guix pack’ + - packages (+2000), services + - ~75% reproducible packages + - build systems: go, font, meson, etc. + - better error reporting + - switch to Guile 2.2! + - installer script +** GuixSD + - UEFI support + - containerized system services + - 'guix system disk-image -t iso9660' + - multiple bootloader support: GRUB, U-Boot, etc. + - GuixSD on ARMv7 \o/ +** infrastructure +*** berlin.guixsd.org — thanks, MDC & Ricardo! +*** Cuirass is getting (much) better + ‘guix publish’ +** events +*** releases +**** only two! (May and December) +*** some blog posts +*** Guix-HPC announced in May +*** talks (see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/tags/talks/) + FOSDEM (Feb., BE) + BOB Konferenz (Feb., BE) + BOSC (July, CZ) + RSE (Sep., UK) + freenode #live (Oct., UK) + GPCE (Oct., CA) + Reproducible Build Summit (Oct., DE) +** community + - ~40 monthly contributors (we reached a plateau?) + - 1 GSoC student (reepca, on the daemon rewrite in Scheme) + - guix-patches backlog is okay but needs love :-) + - Ricardo’s “Mumi” will help? +* challenges for 2018 + - merge ‘core-updates’ more often + - corollary: make build farm more efficient + - corollary: improve Cuirass + - corollary: add a monitoring service on build machines + - ‘guix pull’ faster (see ‘wip-pull-reload’) + - grafts… + - channels + - recursive ‘guix import’ + - live import: ‘guix package -i cpan!Foo::Bar’ + - help on less-technical things: events, GSoC, web site, blog, etc. + - panel later today!