civodul pushed a commit to branch master in repository guix-artwork. commit e391f06f514d6f148253f0f628f0107408c1bae2 Author: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> Date: Fri May 17 19:17:39 2019 +0200
website: guix-1.0.1: Minor updates. * website/posts/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released.md: Change time, add link to Debian's preseeds. --- website/posts/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/posts/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released.md b/website/posts/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released.md index 1914756..81bbc9d 100644 --- a/website/posts/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released.md +++ b/website/posts/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ title: GNU Guix 1.0.1 released -date: 2019-05-17 17:17 +date: 2019-05-19 23:30 author: Ludovic Courtès slug: gnu-guix-1.0.1-released tags: Releases, System tests @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Guix users can update by running `guix pull`. It’s been just over two weeks since we [announced 1.0.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released/)—two -weeks and 702 commits by 39 people already! +weeks and 706 commits by 40 people already! This is primarily a bug-fix release, specifically focusing on issues in the graphical installer for the standalone system: @@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ The lesson here is that: manual testing should _also_ look for issues in the graphical UI. The Debian and Guix installer UIs are similar—both using the [Newt](https://pagure.io/newt) toolkit. Debian tests its installer using -[“pre-seeds”](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed), which -are essentially answers to all the questions and choices the UI would +[“pre-seeds”](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed) +([code](https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/preseed)), which are +essentially answers to all the questions and choices the UI would present. We could adopt a similar approach, or we could test the UI itself at a lower level—reading the screen, and simulating key strokes. UI testing is notoriously tricky so we’ll have to figure out how to get