Roadmap for Guix 1.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

I’ve pushed to guix/maintenance.git a list of things that IMO we should
do or might want to do for 1.0, with the understanding that 1.0 should
happen in 2018 (or early 2019 at the latest!).  :-)

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/1.0.org

The list focuses on “big item” features and tasks, omitting routine bug
fixes and improvements.  Some of these items don’t require a lot of work
or expertise though, so hopefully there’s enough on everyone’s plate.

Feel free to comment, volunteer, add items (but not too many!), remove
items, promote items, etc.  Committers should feel free to edit the file
directly in maintenance.git, especially to mark things as done.  ;-)

Copy of the file attached below.

Ludo’.

PS: I’m starting the discussion but will go AFK soon after sending this
    message.  :-)

#+TITLE: Roadmap for Guix 1.0, 2018
#+STARTUP: hidestars

* 'guix pull' & co.
** TODO 'guix pull' honors ~/.config/guix/channels.scm
*** (guix channels) module provides easy way to build a set of channels
*** (guix inferior) uses that to allow interaction with an arbitrary Guix
** MAYBE 'guix pull' & commit authentication <https://bugs.gnu.org/22883>
** TODO 'guix package -m' (?) allows users to specify a Guix channel
** TODO Profile manifest entries record the channel instance they come from
** TODO build-self.scm trampoline runs faster
* UI/UX
** TODO Add colors for messages (error, warnings, hints, and possibly build 
logs)
** MAYBE Hide build logs in some UIs, as in ‘wip-ui’ branch & Cuirass
** MAYBE Rework grafts and profile hooks to run as “build continuations” 
<https://bugs.gnu.org/28310>
** MAYBE Add ‘guix install’ alias
** TODO Add ‘guix system --delete-generations’
** MAYBE Polish & merge ‘wip-installer’
* core
** TODO Update & merge ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’
** MAYBE Merge ‘wip-gexp-hygiene’ if we have a portable way to compute gensyms
** TODO Use [[https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt][Guile-gcrypt]] instead 
of (guix gcrypt) & co.
** TODO Minimal bootstrap with Mes & co. for i686/x86_64 merged 
(‘wip-bootstrap’)
** MAYBE Use [[https://gitlab.com/rutger.van.beusekom/gash][Gash]] instead of 
Bash during bootstrap
* infrastructure
** TODO ci.guix.gnu.org points to berlin.guixsd.org
** TODO ci.guix.gnu.org is the default substitute server; hydra.gnu.org is 
deprecated
** TODO ARM build machines (+ qemu-binfmt) added behind berlin.guixsd.org
** TODO Tatiana's web UI deployed on berlin.guixsd.org
** TODO Clément's Cuirass improvements deployed (inputs, non-blocking SQLite, 
etc.)
** TODO web site available at guix.gnu.org
*** DNS already set up with two entries, but how to do deal with LE certs and 
all?
** TODO Mumi web UI available at patches.guix.gnu.org and bugs.guix.gnu.org
** TODO berlin.guixsd.org has big storage, uses a TTL > 60 days
** TODO Nar bandwidth issues on berlin fixed (nginx misconfiguration?)
* miscellaneous
** TODO “GuixSD” renamed to “Guix System”?
** TODO “Cuirass” renamed to “Guix CI”?

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