Hi Gabriel! Gabriel Wicki <[email protected]> skribis:
> I recently picked up the great opportunity of a (paid) gig for the Free > Silicon Foundation (F-Si). Nice, congrats!! > 1. Should we introduce our efforts to the general public through a blog > post addressing both the Guix and the F-Si crowd? I have a draft ready > that I will soon send through the list. I am not sure if our blog is > really the right medium for that, since it is mostly a promotion of > Guix for electronics designers, but maybe this still fits? A blog post about this specific use case and how it helps free software would definitely fit, IMO. Feel free to make a pull request for guix/artwork if you already have something! (You could also take a route similar to https://hpc.guix.info, as Cayetano mentions, by setting up an effort advocating specifically for Guix in EDA. Whether it’s a good idea or not really depends on how you see things.) > 2. How do we handle Codeberg Milestones? Could we create one and > organize our efforts through that tool? I think that'd be a great way to > coordinate work and lure in more helping hands (and minds). I think any “collaborator” of the project can create milestones, so you should not hesitate to use that feature within the electronics team. > 3. Could we eventually maybe build bundles of software (through > manifests) on our CI infrastructure? So people anxious to install and > use Guix on their machines could still get a good use of our efforts? > This seems like an (almost) free addition once packages are built > already. WDYT? Bundles as in ‘guix pack’, right? We could do that, with the caveat that it quickly consumes quite a bit of disk space (so we’d have to restrict ourselves to few packages and not rebuild them too often). FWIW, we did that in Guix-HPC for a couple of package sets: https://guix.bordeaux.inria.fr/jobset/images-x86_64 Ludo’.
