Release (was Re: Discussion notes on releases and branches)

Hi, Thanks Andreas for the notes. :-) On Thu, 09 Feb 2023 at 13:19, Andreas Enge wrote: > - A release schedule for a release every 4 to 6 months sounds > reasonable. > - Mathieu, Simon, Julien and Andreas volunteer to be members of a release Ludo was volunteer for helping, if I remember

Re: Google Summer of Code?

Hi, On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 09:05, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > I will contact Jose, pass a link to the ideas side and check how to proceed > and if we can help somehow. Cool! Cross-finger for: February 22 - 18:00 UTC List of accepted mentoring organizations published

Re: Merging core-updates?

Hi, On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 10:05, Julien Lepiller wrote: > As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates > in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't > know what steps I should follow. Do we have some documentation about > that? Maybe a start

Re: avoid Computing Guix derivation when not necessary

Hi, On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 01:10, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The principle is simple: get commit and directory info from the profile >> manifest, compare commits, if commits for all channels are the same, do >> not try to update the profile. Indeed, some improvements could be done in that

Time for RFC? (was Re: Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches))

Hi, On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 22:13, Josselin Poiret wrote: > 1. Document this workflow in the manual, in a dedicated node, with a >rationale as well. One thing worth mentioning would be how to handle >grafting/ungrafting now. Also remove the staging/core-updates >criterion. Maybe

Architecture support [was: Re: Merging core-updates?]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:43:17AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > Well, it could be helpful is Berlin or Bordeaux could build some > manifest of core-updates (not necessary the whole core-updates). And > then, once the manifest builds, we could add some packages and repeat. > > It would avoid

Re: Estimated overhead of building an orthogonal Musl-based LFS within Guix build system

vtkq2fq...@liamekaens.com writes: > Hi, > > I'm wondering what the overall estimated work or effort might look > like to leverage Guix to build a co-existing family of packages that > are in some sense "orthogonal" to the rest of Guix, based upon > different package versions and perhaps musl

Re: Merging core-updates?

Andreas Enge writes: > Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 12:58:06PM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller: >> And I was able to rebuild (with --check) patch-mesboot. The error looks >> a lot like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49985. We should fix that indeed >> :) > > Ah indeed, that looks like deal breaking; maybe

Re: Proposed changes to the commit policy

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 10:40:42PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > My 2¢ on this… As a committer & reviewer, I love that I can just go to > , pick one of the patch series with a > green tick, and have the assurance that the resource-intensive work is >

Re: Architecture support

Am Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:56:45PM +0200 schrieb Efraim Flashner: > Aarch64 and armhf are getting stuck at gcc-cross-boot0. Hm, it looks like I went further: A bit earlier there was a directory /tmp/guix-build-gcc-cross-boot0, and now it is gone and replaced by /tmp/guix-build-glibc-intermediate.

Re: Google Summer of Code?

We can still add ideas after acceptance. We put one in for Mes. On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:51:28AM +0100, Simon Tournier wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 09:05, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > > > I will contact Jose, pass a link to the ideas side and check how to proceed > > and if we can

Re: Merging core-updates?

Am Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:34:56PM +0100 schrieb Janneke Nieuwenhuizen: > To use stat64 and friends on 32bit, I created the attached patch for GNU > Mes and hope to create a 0.24.2 release from > https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes/-/tree/wip-stat64 Thanks a lot, Janneke! > Just hoping this is

Re: Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches)

Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:13:35PM +0100 schrieb Josselin Poiret: > 4. staging merge happens, and the branch gets deleted. I failed to compile my profile on staging, since rust-rav1e, a dependency of ffmpeg, failed to build; see bug #61475. Andreas

Re: Merging core-updates?

Efraim Flashner writes: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:05:40AM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: >> Hi Guix! >> >> As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates >> in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't >> know what steps I should follow. Do we

Re: Merging core-updates?

Hi Katherine et al, On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 09:40 AM, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > >> On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:05:40AM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: >>> Hi Guix! >>> >>> As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates >>> in a very long time.

Re: Merging core-updates?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 06:29:04PM +, Kaelyn wrote: > Hi, > > --- Original Message --- > On Sunday, February 12th, 2023 at 5:08 PM, Andreas Enge > wrote: > > > > > > > Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 12:58:06PM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > > > > > And I was able to rebuild (with

[gnu-soc] Guix internship ideas page

Hello Jose and all, The GNU Guix community would be happy to participate. We have a generic internship ideas page on libreplanet: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2023 Please also let us know if we can help in any way. Regards, g_bor

[Internship][Discussion] Do we want to run our own internship program?

Hello Guix, This is a kickoff message to start the discussion if we want to run our own internship program as the Guix community. We discussed this idea on the Guix Days, and came to the conclusion that this is financially feasible, but needs effort and maybe also some know-how from the

[Internship][Discussion] How we want to arrange the mentoring of internships?

Hello Guix, This is a kickoff message to start the discussion on how we can arrange that community members who are willing to help in mentoring can meaningfully participate if they can not commit to being a full time primary mentor. So the question is: How do we imagine a co-mentor? Regards,

Re: Merging core-updates?

Hello, Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 05:51:47PM +0200 schrieb Efraim Flashner: > I think we normally have a 2 week last-chance window to get all sorts of > last minute packages bumped and then we freeze it and try to build > "everything". I am a bit hesitant to let more breakages in :) It looks like

[Internship] I contacted the Outreachy organizers

Hello Guix, I have contacted the Outreachy organizers to clarify if we need an alternative funding arrangement. I will keep you updated. Regards, g_bor

Re: Merging core-updates?

Hello all, here are my first important failures when trying to go beyond hello and mpc (aka the easy C programs): ocaml-4.0.9 fails with gcc -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -fno-tree-vrp -g -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -DCAML_NAME_SPACE

Re: Merging core-updates?

Hi On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:22 PM Andreas Enge wrote: > > It looks like we have reached the Debian trap How about applying selectively those patches from core-updates that do not break anything? It would split the difference. Future changes waiting in Debbugs could join the remainder, which

Re: [gnu-soc] Guix internship ideas page

> Hello Jose and all, > > The GNU Guix community would be happy to participate. > > We have a generic internship ideas page on libreplanet: > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2023 > > Please also let us know if we can help in any way. Thanks. I have added the guix info to the ideas

Re: Merging core-updates?

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 09:35:32PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello all, > > here are my first important failures when trying to go beyond hello and mpc > (aka the easy C programs): > > ocaml-4.0.9 fails with > gcc -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -fno-tree-vrp -g >

Re: Merging core-updates?

--- Original Message --- On Monday, February 13th, 2023 at 8:04 PM, Efraim Flashner wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 06:29:04PM +, Kaelyn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > --- Original Message --- > > On Sunday, February 12th, 2023 at 5:08 PM, Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr > >