Re: How to test modified shepherd services

2021-12-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Simon South writes: > Nathan Dehnel writes: >> I modified a shepherd service to accept a new field from config.scm >> and I was wondering how to test that it works correctly. > > Assuming this is an existing Guix service, it's probably easiest to > update the corresponding system test

Re: Release v1.4 (or 2.0): process and schedule ?

2021-12-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Vagrant, Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2021-12-19, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >> zimoun 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

Re: Browsers and Gstreamer plugins

2021-12-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Jack, Thank you for posting this well written piece here. Jack Hill writes: > Hi Guix, > > While we have made progress on #52375 [0], the way forward remains > unclear. In summary, WebKitGTK expects certain GStreamer plugins to be > available. Depending on which plugins are missing and

Re: Formalizing teams

2021-12-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > I’ve been looking at our guix-patches backlog, at the great > contributions we get but that stick there for too long, certainly > discouraging people, and also at non-code initiatives (meetups, Guix > Days, Outreachy, documentation, etc.)