Hello! I suggest that we release 0.9.1 as soon as we get less than 2 kernel panic reports per day!
(Just kidding.) Seriously, I think we should be aiming for a release by the end of the month. Here a few rather low-hanging fruits that I think we should address: • Have a GNOME meta-package, or a ‘%gnome-packages’ variable, or something like that. We should provide an example of how to get a GNOME setup. I think several of you have that already. 宋文武? • Proper ‘package-with-python2’ (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/22437>.) It just needs more testing and adjusting existing packages (fewer lines of code, yay!). • There are several bugs reports open regarding container-related test failures. I think we should make sure they are addressed and close them. David? • The nscd issue in the installer image: <http://bugs.gnu.org/22209>. I’ll try to reproduce it in a VM and debug from there. • Incorporate root-encryption fixes (<http://bugs.gnu.org/21843>) and documentation by Petter. Petter and Albin, among others, are already using an encrypted-root setup AIUI, so it’s “just a matter” of consolidating it. See also <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-01/msg00118.html>. • The ‘guile@1.8’ syntax patch. Mathieu? • Possibly the GitHub updater, which seemed pretty much ready. Ben? Anything else? I think we should all focus on these tasks and other bugs at <http://bugs.gnu.org/guix> (help on bug triage is welcome!). It may be that I won’t be able to handle this release myself because I’ll soon be busy for family reasons. :-) I think it’s a great opportunity to try and delegate to someone else (I have a few potential victims in mind that I need to contact ;-)). The whole process is documented in ‘doc/release.org’ in guix-maintenance.git and hopefully intelligible. Ludo’.