Re: plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi! sorry for my late reply I confess I haven't still read the whole Guix/GuixSD Reference Maulal, so my apologies if I'm asking something already documented :-S l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] > We Guix developers don’t have control over the physical hardware behind >

Re: plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ciao Giovanni, Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > recently users and developers are facing hard to manage problems due to > the maintainance of hydra.gnu.org and its proxy mirror.hydra.gnu.org [1] > since 23 Oct 2018 We Guix developers don’t have control over the physical hardware behind

Re: plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-03 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 11:51:20PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > We could easily distribute nar files over distributed networks (IPFS, > bittorrent, …) but we still need a "canonical source" that builds these > packages, otherwise how do you know what you are looking for? Don't we always >

Re: plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-02 Thread Julien Lepiller
We could easily distribute nar files over distributed networks (IPFS, bittorrent, …) but we still need a "canonical source" that builds these packages, otherwise how do you know what you are looking for? Don't we always need some sort of central authority? Le 2 novembre 2018 22:04:51

Re: plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 01:16:03PM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > please is there a roadmap in GNU and/or Guix devel team to address this > problems? I think it would be a good idea to create a more distributed approach for creating and finding substitutes. A simple name service would help. We

plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-02 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Ciao, recently users and developers are facing hard to manage problems due to the maintainance of hydra.gnu.org and its proxy mirror.hydra.gnu.org [1] since 23 Oct 2018 unfortunately many recent reports from users in help-guix and guix-devel mailing list clearly shows that berlin.guixsd.org it's