Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Leo Famulari skribis: > >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: >>> I suggest to end this thread. HiPhish, come and discuss your points at >>> FOSDEM. We'll set up a working group for those who care about these >>>

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread swedebugia
Hi Amirouche On 2018-11-01 14:37, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: Implementation: It could be implemented by adding the fields to package-objects. nitpick, those are records in guile scheme. Did you mean to correct my use of "object" here? Your are right about that. Scheme Syntax:

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - stand

2018-11-01 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:28:22 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > I think that’s enough. > > Thank you! > > Ludo’. Submitted like that, thanks, Björn pgpr3snZr3BUh.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread swedebugia
Hi :) On 2018-11-01 11:21, Pjotr Prins wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:44:19AM +0100, swedebugia wrote: Also to help us to associate new and existing packages with wikidata-entries we could devise a guile-programmed way to associate wikidata-entries to existing package objects

Cuirass hello-singleton.scm example issue

2018-11-01 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, I tried out the example in the Cuirass README [1], but I don't think it worked. 1: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-cuirass.git/tree/README#n46 I see the following in the standard output: 2018-11-01T20:55:43 evaluating spec 'guix-master' Backtrace: 5

New German PO file for 'guix' (version 0.15.0)

2018-11-01 Thread Translation Project Robot
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Re: Patchwork + automated checking and testing of patches

2018-11-01 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> ... >> >> I've now written a very rough package and service for Patchwork [4], and >> managed to setup a instance here [5]. With the help of an email account >> subscribed to both guix-patches and guix-commits, getmail and a

Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

2018-11-01 Thread Laura Lazzati
Ok, I will take a look. :)

Re: Video Documentation for GNU GUIX (an Outreachy project)

2018-11-01 Thread Lakshmi Prasannakumar
Hi Gábor, Let me try once again. I would get back to you soon. Regards, Lakshmi Prasannakumar Bangalore On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:06 PM Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Hello Lakshmi, > > Gábor Boskovits ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. > 31., Sze, 9:32): > > > > Hello Lakshmi, > > > > Gábor Boskovits

Re: Video Documentation for GNU GUIX (an Outreachy project)

2018-11-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Lakshmi, Gábor Boskovits ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 31., Sze, 9:32): > > Hello Lakshmi, > > Gábor Boskovits ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. > 31., Sze, 8:20): > > > > Hello Lakshmi, > > > > Lakshmi Prasannakumar ezt írta > > (időpont: 2018. okt. 31., Sze, 5:45): > > > > > > Hi Björn and

Re: Video Documentation for GNU GUIX (an Outreachy project)

2018-11-01 Thread Lakshmi Prasannakumar
Hi Gábor and Björn, The below link contains the timeline proposal for the internship period. Request you to kindly review them and let me know the changes to be made. I've given edit permission to both of you incase you want to edit or comment in the doc.

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - stand

2018-11-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Björn! Björn Höfling skribis: > we have only one day left (somehow, I thought it would be until 4th > November, but it is Nov 2nd!). So, I would like to get this out tonight > or at latest tomorrow morning (UTC+1). > > The people from Reproducible Builds have too few people, so we are

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

2018-11-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 04:07:56PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > For the record, the maintenance of hydra.gnu.org is still on-going. > From what the FSF sysadmin told us, it could last until Tuesday, > Nov. 6th. > > I strongly recommend switching to berlin.guixsd.org as your primary > source of

Re: Patchwork + automated checking and testing of patches

2018-11-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Christopher Baines skribis: > I haven't used Patchwork [1], but it has been tried previously with Guix > [2][3]. It also seems to be a step forward in terms of taking what's > sent to the mailing list and organising it. > > 1: http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/ > 2:

Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-01 Thread Alex Griffin
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > it would seem unreasonable to join and at the same > time push for a change of rules that have long been established by > members of the group. Agreed, that's why I left the project without making a fuss and waited over 15 months for

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

2018-11-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > The hydra.gnu.org build farm has been off-line since yesterday ~4PM UTC > and will remain off-line roughly until the end of the week. The FSF > sysadmins (it’s hosted at the FSF’s data center) are performing a major > storage upgrade that

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - stand

2018-11-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Björn Höfling ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 1., Cs 15:23): > Hi Guix, > > we have only one day left (somehow, I thought it would be until 4th > November, but it is Nov 2nd!). So, I would like to get this out tonight > or at latest tomorrow morning (UTC+1). > > The people from Reproducible Builds

Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: >> I suggest to end this thread. HiPhish, come and discuss your points at >> FOSDEM. We'll set up a working group for those who care about these >> things. > > I agree. The subject has been discussed ad

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - stand

2018-11-01 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Guix, we have only one day left (somehow, I thought it would be until 4th November, but it is Nov 2nd!). So, I would like to get this out tonight or at latest tomorrow morning (UTC+1). The people from Reproducible Builds have too few people, so we are left alone. I still would give it a try

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Hello, Like Pjotr I think it's a very good idea and the way forward. Find below my comments with some modulation. Le jeu. 1 nov. 2018 à 10:39, swedebugia a écrit : > > Hi > > I am a contributor to OSM and have seen how combining OSM and > Wikidata/Wikipedia (WP) has been very useful. > > I

Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

2018-11-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 1., Cs, 12:38): > > Hi! >> >> I have a question, do you still use VirtualBox for the VM-s? > > Yes, in my TODO list I have: stop using Vbox, maybe KVM? >> >> If it is so, maybe you could have a look at this thread: >> *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD

Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

2018-11-01 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi! > I have a question, do you still use VirtualBox for the VM-s? > Yes, in my TODO list I have: stop using Vbox, maybe KVM? > If it is so, maybe you could have a look at this thread: > *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS *** > they are experiencing the hang in the guile test suite on

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
HiPhish writes: > On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:48:18 CET you wrote: >> Without attributing malice to your statement here, I think it is >> disingenuous to talk about "the other side". We are all part of >> communities we interact with, there is no need for any additional >> "othering" here

Re: [Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:44:19AM +0100, swedebugia wrote: >Also to help us to associate new and existing packages with >wikidata-entries we could devise a guile-programmed way to associate >wikidata-entries to existing package objects and perhaps use this to >populate new

[Feature idea] Adding wikidata, wikipedia & screenshot-url fields to package-recipes

2018-11-01 Thread swedebugia
Hi I am a contributor to OSM and have seen how combining OSM and Wikidata/Wikipedia (WP) has been very useful. I got the idea of adding Wikidata-entries to guix package objecs would be fruitful because: It makes it possible to a more useful list of packages e.g. by showing links to WP

Re: Reinstallation issue

2018-11-01 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi, On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 05:02:24 +0100 bre...@posteo.net wrote: > Hi all, I am trying to duplicate my environment on another machine of > mine using my plain desktop comfiguration. > > There seems to be a bad URL request with telepathy > On the gnome desktop service which is preventing the >

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
HiPhish writes: > I am really trying to understand the other side here, so please help me out > on > this one. Let's say you have two people for the sake of simplicity, we can > call them Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob hate each other's guts, Alice is > unwilling to work on the team if Bob

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

2018-11-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
Just a gentle reminder. Please sign up if you haven't and you want to attend. For the main room we have to cap at 35 people. We still have room! https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2019#Attendees Note also it is possible to stay the night at ICAB. It is actually pretty nice though the

Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

2018-11-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Laura, Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 1., Cs, 3:09): > > > >> Now I am trying to get the official way working, that is by sourcing >> ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile, but it does not seem to work yet. >> (I could of course just source it manually whenever I start a >> terminal,

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-01 Thread Steffen Schulz
One could also argue that there is a oversensible victim "culture" which leads to "stats" such as these, as people tend overexaggarate quite easily in those matters. I am sorry. I'm absolutely sick of these kinds of discussions in mailing lists like this. On 10/31/18 10:27 AM, Alex

New German PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 0.15.0)

2018-11-01 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the German team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/de.po (We can arrange things