Re: [OUTREACHY-December-2020]: Congratulations to Accepted Interns!

2020-11-23 Thread Magali Lemes
Hi, Raghav. thank you. I'm really looking forward to this internship. Cheers, Magali

Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-23 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi Guixers! Thank you for your participation to the Guix Days on this November 22nd. We were around 60 people at all time, for a total of over 80 people during the day. We hope to see you again soon on IRC or the mailing lists! Warm thanks to the presenters who did wonders in a very short

Thoughts on CI (was: Thoughts on building things for substitutes and the Guix Build Coordinator)

2020-11-23 Thread zimoun
Hi, (Disclaim: I am biased since I have been the Mathieu’s rubber duck [1] about his “new CI design” presented in his talk and I have read his first experimental implementations.) 1: Thank you Chris for this detailed email and your

Re: Building the web site is slow

2020-11-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:46:17PM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > it crashes, but only when using ,profile. I will investigate > tomorrow. No sorry the crash is not due to ,profile. It is when invoking Haunt from Guile instead of haunt build. haunt build must be doing something

Re: [Guix Day] Feedback (was: [Guix Day] Join the conference!)

2020-11-23 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:01:54PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > PS: The ugly missing thing with online is «drink and party» > (socializing). :-) Well, one idea that popped up had been: people from > the same city could join, when possible. But lockdown complicated > everything, at least in Paris. I

Re: Building the web site is slow

2020-11-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 04:03:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Do you think we could arrange > to build all the languages in a single ‘haunt build’ run, would that > help? What kept me from doing a single `haunt build` run are two things. The lesser is that, when not using .guix.scm, running

Re: [Guix Day] Feedback (was: [Guix Day] Join the conference!)

2020-11-23 Thread zimoun
Hi Jonathan, Thank you for your feedback. You beat me, I have just send an email asking such. ;-) On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 19:15, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > What I have in mind for a next time: > * create smaller subrooms (in BigBlueButton) for certain topics like at > the FOSDEM Guix Days

Re: [OUTREACHY-December-2020]: Congratulations to Accepted Interns!

2020-11-23 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! Congratulations to  Magali L. Sacramento, Hanan Younes and M Sanni; who are accepted as Outreachy interns, for the December 2020 round, for GNU Guix. :-) OOPS! Sorry, it is only Magali L. Sacramento. Other two were for different project, not GNU Guix. Regards, RG.

[OUTREACHY-December-2020]: Congratulations to Accepted Interns!

2020-11-23 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! Congratulations to Magali L. Sacramento, Hanan Younes and M Sanni; who are accepted as Outreachy interns, for the December 2020 round, for GNU Guix. :-) Regards, RG. OpenPGP_0x5F5816647F8BE551.asc Description: application/pgp-keys OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP

[Guix Day] Feedback (was: [Guix Day] Join the conference!)

2020-11-23 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
On 21.11.20 23:11, Julien Lepiller wrote: Hello Guixers! We are looking forward to see you all during the Guix Day event on Sunday November 22! As a reminder, here is the schedule again. A day after I'm pretty happy that I joined the Guix Days yesterday :) It was very pleasant experience. So

Help Wanted: Issues when packaging QT plugins.

2020-11-23 Thread Zhu Zihao
Hi, Guix users! I'm planning to package https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-qt5. A QT plugin to support Fcitx input method. I found 2 issues during the packaging. 1. This is an old issue mentioned in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00117.html. qt wrapper doesn't extend but

GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

2020-11-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.2.0, which also marks the eighth anniversary of Guix today. This release corresponds to 10,248 commits over 6.5 months by 201 people. It includes many new features, user interface and performance improvements, as well as many bug fixes—see

Building the web site is slow

2020-11-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Florian & all! We have a wonderful i18n web site, but building it takes time proportional to the number of packages, and now that’s multiplied by the number of languages, and we’re really talking about ~15mn on spinning disks, which is starting to feel unreasonable. :-) Florian, what are

Re: 01/03: guix: store: Add ensure-path.

2020-11-23 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > So perhaps we should adjust the docstring to reflect that? Sure, done with: d9e57db72479812cfa30ed8e30a6351959f9a2b2. > Yeah, ‘guix offload’ should not connect to the daemon. It does so > currently for one thing (registering GC roots IIRC), which should be > done in Scheme instead.

Re: 01/03: guix: store: Add ensure-path.

2020-11-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> Looking at LocalStore::ensurePath, I don’t think a GC root is made. >> You have to call ‘add-temp-root’ if you want that to happen, no? > > Yes, I think we do indeed. So perhaps we should adjust the docstring to reflect that? >> However ‘ensure-path’ can

Re: 01/03: guix: store: Add ensure-path.

2020-11-23 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Looking at LocalStore::ensurePath, I don’t think a GC root is made. > You have to call ‘add-temp-root’ if you want that to happen, no? Yes, I think we do indeed. > However ‘ensure-path’ can substitute the store item, which I suppose > means you can substitute .drv files without

Re: 01/03: guix: store: Add ensure-path.

2020-11-23 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > >> commit 2a7e1121d83ee173a7a0dbfb978a4ac363c7c4a6 >> Author: Mathieu Othacehe >> AuthorDate: Wed Nov 4 14:39:40 2020 +0100 >> >> guix: store: Add ensure-path. >> >> * guix/store.scm (ensure-path): New procedure. >