Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

2024-08-18 Thread Suhail Singh
Ian Eure writes: > Guix seems committed to using an email-based workflow, so I think it > makes a lot of sense to look at how Linux does it. It’s the most > successful project in the world to use email-based development. I believe, perhaps, the biggest issue with Guix is a diffusion of responsi

Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

2024-08-18 Thread Tomas Volf
Ian Eure writes: >> >> I believe the usual way of doing something like this is via teams (see >> ./etc/teams.scm ). >> > > I’m not sure whether/how well this mechanism works for non-committers. I believe it should. AFAIK pretty much all it does is to automatically add the team members onto CC l

Re: Cookbook recipe from "The Repository as a Channel" section does not work for Guix with properly configured GUILE_LOAD_PATH

2024-08-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello Nigko and Attila. My current belief is that any `local-file' referring to outside the .guix-channel directory cannot work in channels in all situations. (Attila’s hashes files are inside guix-crypto’s .guix-channel src directory. They are fine.) At first glance, Guix is faulty and does no

Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

2024-08-18 Thread Ian Eure
Hi Christopher, Christopher Baines writes: [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] Sergio Pastor Pérez writes: I cannot help you since I don't have commit access. But I want to thank you for your hard work, I'm currently using your package. I can only echo your frustration since I also have some pa

Re: Proposal: nss updates

2024-08-18 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ian, Ian Eure writes: [...] > The recent 3.101.1 NSS release is an ESR, per the relesae notes[1]. > What’s the process for getting that update into Guix? Since it’ll > cause many rebuilds, it needs to go into a branch first. core-updates > seems like a reasonable place for it -- do I just s

Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

2024-08-18 Thread Lars-Dominik Braun
Hi, > so, i think a lot of packages should be in channels. probably everything that > is not essential for a minimally functional system that can bootstrap itself. > part of python could be in the main guix repo, but whatever is not tightly > needed could go into a channel with its own access c

Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

2024-08-18 Thread Attila Lendvai
> We should try to come up with a solution that alleviates the burden on > the maintainers. Given how often this issue arises, what if we try, as > a collective, to suggest new mechanisms that would improve the > situation? IMO one thing that would help is to somehow losen the current very tight

Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

2024-08-18 Thread Christopher Baines
Sergio Pastor Pérez writes: > I cannot help you since I don't have commit access. But I want to thank > you for your hard work, I'm currently using your package. > > I can only echo your frustration since I also have some patches ready to > be merged that seem to be forgotten. As it has been disc

Re: Static hosting of substitutes

2024-08-18 Thread Christopher Baines
Ian Eure writes: > I’d like to provide substitutes for packages in my personal channel. > The ideal setup for this would be for a machine on my internal net to > perform the builds, then upload the results to another system on the > open internet. That could be a machine running a web server poi