Re: Plan for a release!

[Joshua Branson]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Guix!
>
> I’m going on vacation for a bit, but I think we should finally get that
> release out!  Here’s the list of things to do I have in mind:
>
>   • We need Guile 3.0.1 to fix ‘guix pull’ etc. on AArch64 and possibly
>     JIT on ARMv7:
>
>       https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39266
>       https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39208
>
>   • More testing of the guided installer and related issues:
>
>      https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729
>      https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39712

I'll volunteer to do this on Thursday.  I've got two Macbooks 7,1 and a
2008 Macbook Pro that I can test on.  

>
>   • Fix the weird default font in GNOME Terminal, as sirgazil reported
>     on help-guix.
>
>   • Ensure that the desktop environments provided by the installer
>     actually work (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, etc.).  It’d be great to have
>     automated tests for these!

I do that as well this Thursday.

>
>   • (Optionally) have an automated test that installs the binary tarball
>     on Debian or similar.
>
>   • Address as many of the bugs marked “important” or “serious” as
>     possible.  Should we organize a bug-squashing week?  :-)
>
>   • We already have “make assert-binaries-available”, but at the Guix
>     Days we came up with the idea of having ‘guix weather
>     --release-critical’ or similar, which would ensure that all the
>     relevant jobs pass (packages, cross-builds, system tests, etc.).
>     I’ll see if I can do something in that area.
>
> What’s missing from the list?
>
> I don’t think we’ll wait for the ‘core-updates’ merge, but who knows.
>
> As you see there’s a lot of testing in there, plus the need to keep
> things on track!  If someone wants to be the “master of time” and make
> sure we don’t enter and endless add-feature/break/fix loop, that’d be
> welcome!
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.
>

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Joshua Branson
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