Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> I think you are overreacting and I really don’t think the sarcastic >> response is justified. This kind of communication is very demotivating >> to me. > > Believe it or not, I wasn't conscious of the fact that I was being > sarcastic or hostile

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi again, > Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> I think you are overreacting and I really don’t think the sarcastic >> response is justified. This kind of communication is very demotivating >> to me. > > Believe it or not, I wasn't conscious of the fact that I was being > sarcastic or hostile. I should c

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > I think you are overreacting and I really don’t think the sarcastic > response is justified. This kind of communication is very demotivating > to me. Believe it or not, I wasn't conscious of the fact that I was being sarcastic or hostile. Sorry about that.

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Famulari writes: >> I agree. We need volunteers to pick a particular configuration (my >> suggestion is to start with an Overdrive 3000 rack server[1]) and find a >> place to host these servers. We have not been successful in delegating >> this to other people and unfortunately the mainta

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:04:12AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I think our use of Hydra is not sustainable. It requires regular manual > intervention by Mark, careful tuning of SQL queries, conscientious > clean up of old substitutes, and we have not a single person familiar > with the Perl cod

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Mark, I think you are overreacting and I really don’t think the sarcastic response is justified. This kind of communication is very demotivating to me. If this is an urgent problem (and your hostility indicates that it is) then by all means go ahead and add one of the aarch64 build nodes to

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi again, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > We do have people working on Cuirass, though. Let’s add important > missing features to Cuirass instead of making efforts to keep Hydra on > life support. Perhaps the idea is to use the fact that Aarch64 is unusable to motivate people to work on Cuirass? If t

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Regardless, I think we should seriously consider moving the Aarch64 >>> build slave(s) to Hydra for now, until Cuirass is more mature. >> >> I agree with your points about why berlin.guixsd.o

FOSDEM 2019 - dev-room proposal

2018-08-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
* Minimalistic Languages Every year FOSDEM allows for dev-rooms that need to appeal to a wider audience and do not overlap with other dev-rooms. Programming languages are popular and some of the large languages get their own, such as Python and Rust. See the devrooms section on https://archive

RE: [rb-general] A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-27 Thread Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
> Interesting... I'm looking at > https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet/blob/master/seed.M1 > How was it written? It seems like a monumental task to write all that and > keep enough context in one's head! > Then again, I have never written > assembly before... If you'll notice https://github.co

Re: Email address update

2018-08-27 Thread Clément Lassieur
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> 1: Just send a patch against all headers you are in and do the .mailmap >>part as well. > > I can do that. Any recommendation for the commit message? I know GNU and > Guix > are quite strict in that regard. See commit 4a78fd4617908546be15d2c101f5cab512c71f8e :-

Re: Email address update

2018-08-27 Thread Clément Lassieur
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ok, so that would be one commit per file then. No! One commit for everything.

Re: A major milestone in bootstrapping

2018-08-27 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
jerem...@pdp10.guru writes: > Today I am proud to announce a combo of releases with major milestones. > > First stage0, reached Release version 0.2.0; which includes the following: > A 250byte hex0 bootstrap binary that is self-hosting and builds hex1, > which builds hex2, which bootstraps M0 macr

Re: Email address update

2018-08-27 Thread Nils Gillmann
Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 906 bytes: > > > 1: Just send a patch against all headers you are in and do the .mailmap > >part as well. > > I can do that. Any recommendation for the commit message? I know GNU and > Guix > are quite strict in that regard. There are enough examples for .mail

Re: Email address update

2018-08-27 Thread Nils Gillmann
Hi Pierre, You have 2 options: 1: Just send a patch against all headers you are in and do the .mailmap part as well. 2: Don't update the headers and until your next commit in one of those files. Update .mailmap only. Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 826 bytes: > Hi Guix! > > I've switched to

Re: [Next browser] Common Lisp: mgl-pax: Package SWANK-BACKEND does not exist.

2018-08-27 Thread Andy Patterson
Hi all, There are a few different messages in this thread that I could reply to, but I'll do my best to address them all here. On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:56:19 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > > > I have no clue what this SWANK-BACKEND is.

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Leo, > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Regardless, I think we should seriously consider moving the Aarch64 >> build slave(s) to Hydra for now, until Cuirass is more mature. > > I agree with your points about why berlin.guixsd.org makes it harder to > maintain