Re: Plan for a release!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi there!

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> skribis:

[...]

> (That also means we could switch to Guile 3.0 on core-updates.)

Done!  :-)

>>   • More testing of the guided installer and related issues:
>>
>>      https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729
>>      https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39712

Done, but it’d be nice to add more test of the installer!

>>   • 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!
>>
>>   • (Optionally) have an automated test that installs the binary tarball
>>     on Debian or similar.

Not much progress on these fronts.

>>   • Address as many of the bugs marked “important” or “serious” as
>>     possible.  Should we organize a bug-squashing week?  :-)

We should really do that!

You can view them here:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=is%3Aserious+is%3Aopen
  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=is%3Aimportant+is%3Aopen

There’s quite some bug triage to be done, in fact (some are probably
already fixed.)  Let’s synchronize on IRC!

>>   • 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.

Now we can do:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ludo@ribbon ~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix weather -m etc/release-manifest.scm
guix weather: warning: ambiguous package specification `guile@2.2'
guix weather: warning: choosing guile@2.2.7 from gnu/packages/guile.scm:256:2
computing 265 package derivations for x86_64-linux...
looking for 411 store items on https://ci.guix.gnu.org...
updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
https://ci.guix.gnu.org
  78.3% substitutes available (322 out of 411)
  at least 1,287.5 MiB of nars (compressed)
  2,720.0 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
  0.004 seconds per request (1.6 seconds in total)
  250.9 requests per second
  'https://ci.guix.gnu.org/api/queue?nr=1000' returned 504 ("Gateway Time-out")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This one is telling us that we have substitutes for 78% of the
“release-critical” packages, for all architectures.

There are build failures to look at (e.g., vim on armhf-linux).  You can
run ‘guix weather’ with ‘--display-missing’ to view the list of failing
items, and then you can try building them with, say:

  guix build $(guix gc --derivers /gnu/store/…-thing-that-fails)

Help welcome!

Then, system tests:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ludo@ribbon ~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix weather -m etc/system-tests.scm
random seed for tests: 1584533532
Selected 63 system tests...
computing 63 package derivations for x86_64-linux...
[############################                                                   
                                   ]Computing Guix derivation for 
'x86_64-linux'... /
[###############################################################                
                                   ]hint: gnu/tests/monitoring.scm:312:19: 
zabbix-front-end-configuration: Consider using `db-secret-file' instead of
`db-password' for better security.

looking for 63 store items on https://ci.guix.gnu.org...
updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
https://ci.guix.gnu.org
  68.3% substitutes available (43 out of 63)
  at least 0.1 MiB of nars (compressed)
  2.4 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
  0.007 seconds per request (0.5 seconds in total)
  135.1 requests per second
  'https://ci.guix.gnu.org/api/queue?nr=1000' returned 504 ("Gateway Time-out")
ludo@ribbon ~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix weather -m etc/system-tests.scm -s 
i686-linux
random seed for tests: 1584533661
Selected 63 system tests...
computing 63 package derivations for i686-linux...
[############################                                                   
                                   ]Computing Guix derivation for 
'x86_64-linux'... /
[#################################################################              
                                   ]hint: gnu/tests/monitoring.scm:312:19: 
zabbix-front-end-configuration: Consider using `db-secret-file' instead of
`db-password' for better security.

looking for 63 store items on https://ci.guix.gnu.org...
https://ci.guix.gnu.org
  68.3% substitutes available (43 out of 63)
  at least 0.1 MiB of nars (compressed)
  2.4 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
  0.000 seconds per request (0.0 seconds in total)
  3,379.3 requests per second
  'https://ci.guix.gnu.org/api/queue?nr=1000' returned 504 ("Gateway Time-out")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This suggests that there are (presumably) a bunch of system tests
failing.  Again, we can pass ‘--display-missing’ to see which ones.
I fixed a few tests recently.

If you’re confined at home anyway, that gives you plenty of ways to help
out!  :-)

How ’bout targeting a release next week?

Ludo’.