Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> "Danny Milosavljevic" <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>>
>>> I agree that automating the technical steps of contributing to Guix
>>> would be nice.
>>
>> We could provide a VM.  Guix can create systems well enough to make this
>> feasible, I think.
>
> I'm not convinced.  I typically uses VM for testing quick hacks on
> foreign systems, not as my main development environment.  I doubt the
> experience would be helped much.  We have 'guix shell' :-).

Or “guix system container” if we want to meet in the middle :)

-- 
Ricardo