Re: CI is not processing jobs

2024-06-06 Thread Lars-Dominik Braun
Hi Ludo, > This has been running for ~4 days now; the number of pending builds has > significantly decreased (in particular, you’ll be delighted to get > substitutes for ‘core-updates’!): excellent, thank you very much! Lars

Re: I'm retiring (for a while); help needed

2024-06-06 Thread Lars-Dominik Braun
Hi Ricardo, > * maintenance of R, as well as CRAN and Bioconductor packages. is there anyone who will look after the automated channels guix-cran/guix-bioc (and possibly guix-science)? > * Finishing the python-team branch. > > We wanted to merge the "python-team" branch soon, which contains >

Re: Call for contribution to the Guix infrastructure

2024-06-06 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > - Improve infra monitoring: set up a dashboard to monitor all the > infrastructure, and an out-of-band channel to communicate about > downtime. ... > - Support mirroring: We’d like to make it easy for others to > mirror substi

Re: Are 'guix gc' stats exaggerated?

2024-06-06 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ludo' On Thu, Jun 06 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Where does that 3:1 figure come from? Efraim's experience, I believe. > Where do you see that in the code? After checking > ‘removeUnusedLinks’, I think it counts space savings right. Sorry, I didn't look at the code. I was merely prompt

Re: CI is not processing jobs

2024-06-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 05:05:32PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Almost all the x86 builds have been consumed: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > cuirass=> select count(*) from builds where status = -2 and system > ='x86_64-linux'; > count > -

Re: Call for contribution to the Guix infrastructure

2024-06-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Carlo, Carlo Zancanaro skribis: > On Fri, May 24 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> • Day-to-day system administration >> >> We’re also looking for people who’d be willing to have SSH access to >> some of the infrastructure to help with day-to-day maintenance: >> restarting a bu

Re: Come speak at the Guix Social meetup

2024-06-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Steve, Steve George skribis: > We're looking for speakers - of any level - to give talks at the Guix online > meetup. We're a small, friendly group at all levels of experience. Talks can > be about anything Guix associated, for example: That’s a great initiative! It would probably make se

Re: Improving the speed of guix time-machine for development environments

2024-06-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Richard Sent skribis: >2. Less maintainence burden to regularly update pinned commits, >particularly as a channel dependency tree grows. > > I feel that soft-pinning strikes a balance between those two goals that > is useful when dependencies on a frequently updated channel are unlikely >

Re: CI is not processing jobs

2024-06-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Guix! Ludovic Courtès skribis: > Ludovic Courtès skribis: > >> The longer story is that Ricardo noticed that the build backlog had been >> growing for a couple of months (see “Pending builds”): >> >> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/metrics >> >> We discussed this on guix-sysadmin and found that th

Re: A paper about Plan 9 and Guix

2024-06-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Edouard, Edouard Klein skribis: >> I wonder to what extent the combination of ‘make-inetd-constructor’ and >> ‘least-authority-wrapper’ would fit the bill for you? (This is currently >> used for the bitlbee, dicod, and rsync services.) It seems to address >> the main shortcomings listed in

Re: Are 'guix gc' stats exaggerated?

2024-06-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Felix, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." skribis: > It probably makes more sense to focus on the Guix daemon here. I hope > you don't mind a few clarifying questions. > > Why, please, does the benefit of de-duplication approach a fixed ratio > of 3: