Re: weird mumi message dupe/drop?

2024-09-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Lilah, Am Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 11:59:03AM -0500 schrieb Lilah Tascheter: > so, I just tried to apply v3 of issue #73202, but it failed, first > trying to apply a regular email, then completely dropping the last > patch (in email order, so actually patch 12/14). looking into it, it > seems li

Re: Rebuilding a package after removing a build step

2024-09-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:22:28AM +0200 schrieb Konrad Hinsen: > $ guix show -L . sbcl-websocket-driver > name: sbcl-websocket-driver > version: 0.2.0-0.df94496 > location: gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm:30847:4 > It looks like Guix picked the larger one by > alphanumeric order, which is not a

Re: Fetchmail's fetchmail conf does not work on Gentoo

2024-09-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 08:20:56PM -0400 schrieb Superfly Johnson: > Hi again Guix-Devel mailing list. I'm currently trying to configure a > fetchmail daemon on my gentoo laptop to get mails. Unfortunately, > fetchmailconf will not execute properly. It will always return line 2: exec: > ::

Re: QA and armhf

2024-09-13 Thread Andreas Enge
PS: At https://git.guix-patches.cbaines.net/guix-patches/ the latest issue branch seems to be issue-71974 Is this related to the master weather, or a bug?

QA and armhf

2024-09-13 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, after the core-updates merge, QA is not keeping up; on https://qa.guix.gnu.org/patches I see the message Builds for new patch series suspended as master branch substitute availability is low for: armhf-linux Maybe buying new ARM machines could be part of the solution, but I also th

Re: core-update scope

2024-09-08 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Leo, Am Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 01:47:03PM -0400 schrieb Leo Famulari: > I agree, we don't have to have a team for this. I'm not sure anyone else > cares about the "media" packages as a whole. But if there is interest, > that's good too. as an outsider, I would just like to chime in that I lik

Re: ‘core-updates’ is gone; long live ‘core-packages-team’!

2024-09-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 01:35:07PM +0200 schrieb Marek Paśnikowski: > * What if an unrelated branch gets merged before the two considered in the > example? That should not happened since branches are queued up in QA, see the paragraph marked "Branches" here: https://qa.guix.gnu.org/ > * What i

Re: ‘core-updates’ is gone; long live ‘core-packages-team’!

2024-09-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 11:11:14AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > The way I see it, one of the branches would be tested independently. > The second one would also be tested independently, but on a limited > scope—e.g., x86_64-only, because (1) we usually have more build power > for that a

Re: Merging ‘core-updates’ real soon

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 02:07:32PM +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > I noticed a regression for x86_64 since the rebasing of core-updates > onto master. epiphany no longer builds due to a build failure in > webkitgtk. > I hadn't reported it yet, because there's a chance it's due to limited > resourc

Re: Merging ‘core-updates’ real soon

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 10:43:05PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > To me, that’s the last blocker, even though there’s room for improvement > here and there (for instance, FFmpeg currently fails to build on > i686-linux). Just so that others do not have to repeat my check: ffmpeg fails to find op

Re: P2P Guix package building and distribution

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Christine, Am Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 06:07:58PM -0400 schrieb Christine Lemmer-Webber: > > 1. Buying and hosting hardware: > > 250k€ for hardware > > 3k€/month (36k€/year) > So I am guessing bandwith costs are significant but the 250k EUR for > hardware indicates this is especially

Re: Sustainable funding and maintenance for our infrastructure

2024-07-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Enno, thanks for the pointer! Am Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 07:21:38PM +0200 schrieb Enrico Schwass: > If you are looking for host services > I have good experience with netcup.de. Looking at their virtual "root" servers: https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/ the most interesting price point would b

Re: Sustainable funding and maintenance for our infrastructure

2024-07-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Tomas, Am Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 11:47:38AM +0200 schrieb Tomas Volf: > First 10 TB / Month $0.09 per GB > Next 40 TB / Month$0.09 per GB > Next 100 TB / Month $0.07 per GB > Greater than 150 TB / Month $0.05 per GB thanks for providing concrete figures! I w

Re: python-duckdb stuck in its tests

2024-07-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 11:41:12PM +0100 schrieb Sharlatan Hellseher: > I've pushed update togather with https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71480. It > fixed the build, check and sanity check phases in > ce98c3436c57e7b366a3ec06c47a7e8919c990fb. Excellent, thanks a lot! Andreas

Re: merging r-team branch

2024-07-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 09:24:23AM +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > the r-team branch has been built successfully. It contains updates to R > and both CRAN and Bioconductor packages. > It touches very few packages that are not related to R. The exception > is apache-arrow. answering the s

Re: update Mate Desktop to 1.28

2024-07-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Andy, Am Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 03:37:09PM -0700 schrieb Andy Tai: > Hi, in this patch series > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71781 > I sent would upgrade Mate to 1.28. Hope someone with commit access > can review the patch series. Keep desktop environments up to date is > good for GNU Guix.

Re: No mutter on master

2024-07-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 06:25:35AM + schrieb Ada Stevenson: > Mutter is one of those packages that fails on CI for no reason occasionally. > The test suite is flaky. that is annoying for such an important package! Maybe we can identify the one (?) flaky test and disable it. > Sometime

No mutter on master

2024-07-03 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, currently I cannot reconfigure my laptop with the Xfce desktop environment due to mutter not building: Ok: 166 Expected Fail: 5 Fail: 1 Unexpected Pass:0 Skipped:0 Timeout:0 (this was on a local build). Given the amount of outp

python-duckdb stuck in its tests

2024-06-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello the Python team, python-duckdb sticks out on the build farm, since it apparently gets blocked in its tests after spending quite some CPU time for building, and finally it times out after a day. It seems to happen consistently over several evaluations. The last lines are: tests/fast/test_mult

Re: Codifying/Documenting Guix commit message conventions?

2024-06-28 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, thanks for bringing up the question! Am Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 07:04:49PM -0400 schrieb Richard Sent: > Meanwhile in Guix commit messages, [foo] seems to be used to refer to a > subset of a larger part [2]: > From what I'm seeing, the GNU Changelog convention is to indicate > subsets using <

Re: An IRC bot called Peanuts

2024-06-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 03:31:00PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Likewise, I like resolution of bug numbers and commit IDs, but I find > that echoing the title of HTML pages is often redundant and unnecessary. Maybe this could be a good summary ("consensus") of what people have expressed (inclu

Re: An IRC bot called Peanuts

2024-06-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Felix, Am Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 01:56:44PM -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: > Today I received this private message: like others, I am appalled by the use of offensive language; in the absolute, but even more so as it is directed at a

Re: qa.guix delays in processing patches

2024-06-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 04:07:55PM -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath: > It's not clear to me how jobs are ordered in the queue, which makes it hard > to tell if this is normal processing time or if something might be going > wrong again. It is "last in, first out": newest patches can hide older ones. I

Re: About SWH, let avoid the wrong discussion

2024-06-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:12:13PM +0300 schrieb MSavoritias: > and as I mention in my first email I want to apply social pressure and make > it clear to package authors what is happening so we can move to an opt-in > model. Well, the opt-in model is in place: As soon as I put my code under a fr

Re: Next Steps For the Software Heritage Problem

2024-06-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:59:41PM +0200 schrieb Ekaitz Zarraga: > For this specific case we could add some flag to the command line like > `--do-not-archive` or something like that. guix lint -x archival if I understand "guix lint --help" correctly. Andreas

Re: Next Steps For the Software Heritage Problem

2024-06-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:42:44PM +0100 schrieb Dale Mellor: > I'm sure guix lint tried to push my code out to them the last time I tried. Ah indeed, there is this in guix/lint.scm: (define (check-archival package) "Check whether PACKAGE's source code is archived on Software Heritage. If it's

Re: Starting a Quality Assurance Meeting/Team/Sociocracy circle

2024-06-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Chris, Am Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 04:26:26PM +0100 schrieb Christopher Baines: > I know nothing about Sociocracy, but I did like what I heard about it at > the Guix Days, so I want to at least work out what a minimally viable > circle around this would look like, and whether there's support for

Re: Come watch a live stream coding session for the Hurd

2024-06-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 06:45:26PM +0200 schrieb Tobias Alexandra Platen: > I'm planing to do something similar with my libsurvive project, > as I am developing hardware that "Respects Your Freedom". I will > present how I use guix in some of those livestreams. Great, please share the venue and sc

Re: Next Steps For the Software Heritage Problem

2024-06-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 09:36:29AM +0100 schrieb Dale Mellor: > No, it's not. I use Guix as a tool to develop my own projects, private and > personal for reasons I'm keeping to myself. As part of that I write package > definitions for them, and use the Guix machinery to build and test. I > *c

Re: [PATCH maintenance] hydra: services: Reload nginx when certbot updates certificates.

2024-06-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 09:35:10AM +1000 schrieb Carlo Zancanaro: > I'm not so sure about this. To make the change that I sent I grepped for > issues.guix.gnu.org and it showed up in hydra/nginx/berlin.scm Indeed: $ host issues.guix.gnu.org issues.guix.gnu.org has address 141.80.181.40 $ host ber

Re: Disappearing development installation images

2024-06-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:58:06AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > After investigating, it turns out we had a periodic job on berlin > removing GC roots for *.iso and *.qcow2—no wonder they’d disappear > earlier than expected. That job was added at a time where we had disk > space issues that hav

Re: CI is not processing jobs

2024-06-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 07:48:27PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Enge: > Could the graph on >https://ci.guix.gnu.org/metrics > be augmented by the number of packages to be built for the different > architectures? In that direction, the metrics now show that very few packages were built in

Re: Cleaning up branches on savannah

2024-06-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Mark, Am Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 11:16:59AM -0400 schrieb Mark H Weaver: > For IceCat updates, which almost always include security fixes, it is > important to have very fast turnaround time on the test results. > ci.guix.gnu.org normally starts building the new IceCat within an hour > or so of

Re: 02/02: gnu: linux-libre: Update to 6.9.

2024-06-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 09:19:14PM -0400 schrieb Leo Famulari: > You're right, it was ZFS itself failing to build. > *** ZFS Version: zfs-2.2.3-1 > *** Compatible Kernels: 3.10 - 6.7 > Should we change something about zfs-auto-snapshot? Or is the status quo > okay? Somebody has suggest

Re: Are 'guix gc' stats exaggerated?

2024-06-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 12:19:55PM +0300 schrieb Efraim Flashner: > In my not having looked at the code, I'll point out that running `guix > gc -C 10G` will clear 10G of items from the store, but will return > between 2-10G of real space for future use on the hard drive. Thinking > across my vario

Guix build coordinator and cgroups

2024-06-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, when trying to run a guix build agent in a docker container on openshift with a colleague and assigning 8 of the 128 cores of the physical machine, the agent would be completely choked since it would start all builds with commands such as "make -j 128". The 128 are determined by a call to t

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: gnu: xkeyboard-config: Upgrade to 2.41.

2024-05-31 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello! Am Fri, May 31, 2024 at 09:21:07AM +0900 schrieb B. Wilson: > What's the proper procedure when updating packages to check that its reverse > dependencies aren't broken by the change? You can run this: $ guix refresh -l xkeyboard-config which replies with Building the following 1876 package

Re: SageMath packaging work

2024-05-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, May 22, 2024 at 03:50:43PM +0100 schrieb Sharlatan Hellseher: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=SageMath+is%3Aopen > 56729 patch[RFC PATCH 00/10] Add sagemath. > 70924 patch[PATCH 00/10] Add some SageMath standard packages. > Maybe it needs some love to bring to the master branch.

Re: Scheduling a new release?

2024-05-15 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 11:41:26AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > As discussed at the 2023 Guix Days (!), we could follow a model similar > to that of NixOS: form a release team (~4 people) dedicated to keeping > track of issues in particular wrt. the installer, and committed to > publishing a re

Re: Core updates status

2024-05-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Thanks, Felix and Maxim, for your explanations! Andreas

Re: Core updates status

2024-05-08 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, May 06, 2024 at 10:47:13AM +0200 schrieb Josselin Poiret: > Maxim Cournoyer writes: > > I don't mind too much; when we re-enable the change we should add a > > phase to the gnu-build-system automatically deleting/moving the libtool > > archives. so that we're covered. > > I agree,

Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?

2024-05-02 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:00:15AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > That was 8 years ago though (eight!). At this point I think defaulting > to /var and /etc would do more good than harm. > What do others think? I have always been in favour of /var and /etc as defaults, and unsurprisingly still a

Re: Vim helper config for Guix

2024-04-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Efraim, Am Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 09:43:02AM +0300 schrieb Efraim Flashner: > Most of the line indentation works pretty well. Vim, by default for lisp > languages, hardcodes an indent as 2 spaces, and I haven't gotten around > to learning how to write an indentexpr to make it work for guix. As

Re: Change logs: usage of square brackets

2024-04-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 11:10:14AM +0500 schrieb Nigko Yerden: > I wonder what is the proper usage of square brackets in change logs. > According to https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs > square brackets are used for conditional changes, the name of the condition > is speci

Re: Managing patches and branches, retrospective and futher changes?

2024-04-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 02:21:56PM +0100 schrieb Christopher Baines: > Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions! in this part: +@item +Minimise the changes on master that are missing on the branch prior to +merging the branch in to master. Merging master in to the branch can be +

Re: backdoor injection via release tarballs combined with binary artifacts (was Re: Backdoor in upstream xz-utils)

2024-04-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 02:56:24PM +0200 schrieb Ekaitz Zarraga: > I think it's just better to > obtain the exact same code that is easy to find The exact same code as what? Actually I often wonder when looking for a project and end up with a Github repository how I could distinguish the "original

Re: backdoor injection via release tarballs combined with binary artifacts (was Re: Backdoor in upstream xz-utils)

2024-04-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 03:57:20PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > I think we should gradually move to building everything from > source—i.e., fetching code from VCS and adding Autoconf & co. as inputs. the big drawback of this approach is that we would lose maintainers' signatures, right

Re: rewriting history; Was: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-03-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 04:33:49PM +0200 schrieb MSavoritias: > Actually gitlab already is facing something like that and they are doing > what was proposed elsewhere: mapping of UUIDs to display names > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/20960 Interesting, thanks! It is something that

Re: rewriting history; Was: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-03-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 04:03:20PM +0200 schrieb MSavoritias: > Rewriting history is the wrong question imo. I dont think a request to > change all of the history of Guix will be accepted anyway. > A much easier thing to do is to change the approach in the future. And let > all the past history unt

Re: rewriting history; Was: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-03-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello all, Am Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 12:26:18PM +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier: > Therefore, it would be more constructive if you come with a > proof-of-concept allowing “history rewrite” and strong “software > identification” property the one thing I can think of, and which would allow time travel t

Re: (Lx)Qt team in Guix

2024-03-08 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:46:12PM -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > I think the reason qt.scm is part of the lxqt team is historical; lxqt-team > predates qt-team. We should probably just remove qt.scm from > lxqt-team's scope. What do you think? > > I'd keep both team separated; I'm int

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 07:19:46PM + schrieb Etienne B. Roesch: > Anything we need to have prepared by Thursday? > I imagine a ubuntu vm running with vanilla guix installed is installed? you should have a means of running Guix, and so that your store gets populated with recent basic th

Re: Contribute or create a channel?

2024-03-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 11:32:37AM +0100 schrieb Hartmut Goebel: > Maybe using one file per release (and accept duplicate code) would be a > suitable workaround. I think that would be okay if you think it will be easier to maintain (not needing to "roll over" code from an old package at the inheri

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Dan, thanks for your thoughts! I think I will restrict my replies to guix-devel to keep them in one place; the following are just my personal opinions. Am Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 03:41:41PM + schrieb Daniel Littlewood: > Something that is not obvious to me when people refer to reviewing pa

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-02-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 05:10:56PM + schrieb Daniel Littlewood: > * I think the meeting is at 18:00 UTC, which is the same as 18:00 GMT, > which is the same (on March 7th) as 18:00 London time > Meetup also says 18:00 GMT. Yes, that is the plan! Andreas

Re: Creating 2024 internship page

2024-02-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:28:29AM +0100 schrieb Gábor Boskovits: > I had a look at the libreplanet today and tried to add an internship page for > 2024, but it look like I have no permission to create a page in the guix > group. > It also shows me the group main page as protected. Can som

Rust team branch merged

2024-02-28 Thread Andreas Enge
$ git status On branch master Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 1438 commits, and can be fast-forwarded. (use "git pull" to update your local branch) $ git log origin/master commit f29f80c194d0c534a92354b2bc19022a9b70ecf8 (origin/master, origin/HEAD) Merge: c034088e37 7947d47c9b Author:

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-02-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Felix, Am Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 07:26:57AM -0800 schrieb Felix Lechner: > How about a 48-hour period every month in which commits are permitted > even if they cause "world rebuilds"? > We could pause the substitute builders during that period. It would get > rid of core-updates forever. a ti

Re: Proposal to turn off AOT in clojure-build-system

2024-02-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 03:57:41PM +0100 schrieb Maxime Devos: > Yes. It appears you are unfamiliar with (...) > It also appears you are unfamiliar with (...) May I suggest to not make assumptions about what other people are familiar with or not? There is no point in claiming that others are less

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 11:56:50AM +0100 schrieb Clément Lassieur: > Would it makes sense to have a "does-not-apply" tag too? Should this not appear in the QA page, assuming that once all the new issues are closed, older ones will bubble to the top and be treated by QA? (I am not sure if just look

Re: Committers available for Patch hacking/review meet-up?

2024-02-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, thanks, Steve, for getting things going! Am Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 02:48:08PM + schrieb Steve George: > We said they'd be every 13 days, for 3 months to see if it has interest. > Proposed calendar: > 7th March (Thursday) I will be around on this day. > 2nd April (Tuesday) > 15th April

Re: QA is back, who wants to review patches?

2024-02-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 04:08:45PM +0100 schrieb Tanguy LE CARROUR: > I’m "reviewing" `[bug#68997] gnu: lightning: Update to 2.2.3`… please > find another one! 😁 Now that you jump to complicated and not even yet built by QA packages, you are safe from my competition :) Andreas

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 05:35:44PM +0100 schrieb Edouard Klein: > Am Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 07:56:48PM + schrieb Skyler Ferris: > > I'd like to do my part to keep the project in a good state. However, I > > am new to interacting with large FLOSS projects so I'm nervous about > > causing m

Re: QA is back, who wants to review patches?

2024-02-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I see a few "Failed to process revision", for instance here: https://qa.guix.gnu.org/issue/68778 While I am not sure why, these look like transient (?) build failures, at least failures not related to the patch in question. What is there to do? Andreas

Re: QA is back, who wants to review patches?

2024-02-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 02:53:59PM +0100 schrieb Tanguy LE CARROUR: > Quoting Christopher Baines (2024-02-09 14:44:25) > > Tanguy LE CARROUR writes: > > > Can I safely close it?! > > > > Yep, this unfortunately looks like a case where there was a duplication > > of effort and the original patch g

Re: bug#68920: Issues with issues.guix.gnu.org (502 Bad Gateway)

2024-02-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 09:22:43AM -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > Thanks for the report. It occurred a few times in the past weeks, where > the 'mumi' service had to be restarted on Berlin. Let's keep this open > to see if it'll occur again. Otherwise I'll close it in a week or two. It has ha

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

2024-01-31 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 05:44:21PM +0100 schrieb Josselin Poiret: > One conundrum we have for now: glibc 2.38 has a couple of new CVEs, and > we have three options: > 1) change glibc to track the 2.38 release branch → world rebuild. > 2) graft glibc → bad user experience (and we're not supp

Re: [bug#68606] role of core-updates

2024-01-25 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 02:22:08PM -0500 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > Since patchelf is core material, if the rest of the series depend on > that update, it should go to core-updates as well. If I understand correctly, the series just needs patchelf 0.18, which is already in core-updates. So I will

Re: role of core-updates

2024-01-24 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 11:33:54AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Enge: > Am Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 11:16:14AM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > > With that in mind, ‘core-updates’ would effectively become the branch of > > the ‘core-packages’ team: the branch where we update pa

Re: Guix at 37C3 Chaos Communication Congress in late Dec?

2024-01-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:22:01PM + schrieb Fabio Natali: > The advantage of a Lisp assembly is the economy of scale. That'd combine > together various projects that were all massively under-represented at > 37c3 - I'm primarily thinking of Guix, Guile, and Emacs as those are the > pro

Re: Guix at 37C3 Chaos Communication Congress in late Dec?

2024-01-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Fabio, Am Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 01:49:24PM + schrieb Fabio Natali: > The introductory session on Day 1 wasn't so bad, I think. Given the low > level of feedback on the Fediverse I was expecting very few people, > instead I think we were north of 30 participants! thanks for your report! T

Re: [Guix-europe-sac] Shutting down qa.guix?

2024-01-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 11:54:59AM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > I think this underlines a collective failure to get our act together. indeed, and besides what Simon mentioned about the bank situation I think there was a certain lack of consistency between deciding on the technical and

Re: Unreleased wget

2024-01-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 12:47:32PM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > I’ve now uploaded a copy of that tarball to ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/mirror. > As a rule of thumb, we should always store upstream tarball copies or > variants thereof on that server. Thank you for the fix, and sorry again for my mist

Re: role of core-updates

2023-12-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 11:16:14AM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > With that in mind, ‘core-updates’ would effectively become the branch of > the ‘core-packages’ team: the branch where we update packages in these > files (primarily the toolchain and Guile), perhaps also (guix build > utils), and t

Re: Questions about packages because of license and other

2023-12-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Christian, Am Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 09:36:06PM +0100 schrieb Christian Miller: > 1. PrismLauncher[0]: The software itself is licensed as GPL3 but it is > used to download and launch a proprietary videogame called > "Minecraft". Since it is itself GPL3 licensed but used for a > proprietary vi

Unreleased wget

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Speaking of core-updates, I made a mistake during the latest merge last spring. We needed a new wget release and the wget maintainers took some time, so I rolled a "non-release" 1.21.3.24 before the 1.21.4 release (in core-updates, commit 93f9c260ac333ae7b86bfaeeead674fe01d924ce updates wget to the

Re: role of core-updates

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 10:53:46PM -0800 schrieb Andy Tai: > Hi, hope Guix maintainers can clarify the role of the now core-updates > branch; the current documentation does not specify the core-updates > branch as a thing but there are clearly interests and uses of this > branch for package updates

Re: "random check" approach to Guix QA?

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 03:11:29PM -0800 schrieb Andy Tai: > Can the same approach be borrowed here, so when there is large number > of impacted packages from a patch, say larger than 200, Guix QA just > randomly select a subset sample out of these packages and build them, > and in case of

Re: Feedback (was Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse)

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 05:01:12PM +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier: > Guix on foreign distro: > a) do not interact with foreign distro > => good complement and rolling release > b) containerized shell > => please developers and also "roll-back", although i

Re: Upgrading Guix's security team

2023-11-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 03:22:42PM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Yes, we definitely need a rotation here! I for one have my name there > but regardless of my interest, I have to admit that I’ve been unable to > be sufficiently responsive. It’s time to let new folks take > responsibilit

Re: Reproducible Builds 2023 in Hamburg

2023-11-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:26:52PM + schrieb Christopher Baines: > Oh, and I forgot to say with the help of Bernhard I added Guix support > to [3]. > 3: https://ismypackagereproducibleyet.org/ Exciting, congratulations! Andreas

Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, nov. 18-19

2023-10-25 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:17:01PM +0200 schrieb Vivien Kraus: > > Some of us will be in Toulouse, INP-N7, 26 rue Riquet on 18 & 19 > > november for Capitole du Libre: > > We will stand in Village Associatif.  Let us know if you can help us > > at the event.  Well, I do not know exactly what means

Re: [workflow] Automatically close bug report when a patch is committed

2023-09-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 09:14:52PM +0200 schrieb Liliana Marie Prikler: > I do wonder how the ChangeId would work in practice. Since it's not > really assigned by the committer, it would have to be generated "on the > fly" and attached to the mail in between, which could result in all > ki

Re: Guidelines for pre-trained ML model weight binaries

2023-09-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, related to this thread, I just came across an entry in Cory Doctorow's blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means It is already interesting in its disection of the terms "open" vs. "free", which is quit

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-09-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:23:45AM + schrieb Attila Lendvai: > - large backlog. contributions somtimes even fall through the cracks. My impression/hope is that the recent introduction of teams leads to improvements on this front. I am on the science and texlive teams and have been getting ema

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-09-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 08:44:18AM -0400 schrieb brian via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: > > - strict adherence to changelog style commit messages without a > >clearly worded and documented argument about why it's worth the > >effort in 2023. whenever 'C' fails

Re: Current Issues with Patch Review Workflow Using git.guix-patches.cbaines.net

2023-09-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello jgart, Am Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 05:48:05PM + schrieb jgart: > Old tickets are not kept around. > For example, A branch for ticket 51810* does not exist anymore. this is probably due to the fact that the git repo did not yet exist at the time. The oldest issue I see is 60286 from December

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Katherine, thanks for your summary, which contains many points I would agree with and actionable items (disclaimer: I do not promise to act on them). Am Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 10:11:02AM -0600 schrieb Katherine Cox-Buday: > Here's my understanding of the process to contribute a patch: My pro

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 02:22:01AM +0200 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: > Writing the metadata into the commit messages is annoying. It totally should > be automated, especially since Scheme has pretty simple syntax (so it should > be easy to write such a thing/famous-last-words). It should just figu

Re: SSSD, Kerberized NFSv4 and Bacula

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, just a tiny comment to one of your points: Am Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 07:55:05PM + schrieb Martin Baulig: > 1. GNU Guix is currently using nfs-utils 2.4.3, whereas 2.6.3 is currently > the > latest version. We don't need to upgrade, but I would like to backport > one > change,

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-30 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 08:39:17AM + schrieb Attila Lendvai: > just now i wanted to take a look at mumi's sources, but the link in the > manual (https://git.elephly.net/gitweb.cgi?p=software/mumi.git) times out. There is a mumi package in guix, and it gives the source location as https://g

Re: documentation in TeX Live collections

2023-08-28 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 06:54:35PM +0200 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > Emmanuel Beffara writes: > > I don't understand how "out" and "doc" are different in this respect. The > > "out" output of a collection meta-package has no content of its own and it > > only serves to gather the "out" outp

Non-committer comments on patches

2023-08-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 07:42:13PM +0200 schrieb kias...@disroot.org: > I would like to hear from committers if non-committer reviews are helpful, > because I don't really know how or what I can comment on for incoming > patches on packages I'm not really familiar with. > Also do "this buil

Re: Why does Guix duplicate dependency versions from Cargo.toml?

2023-08-26 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 03:56:56PM +0100 schrieb (: > Zhu Zihao writes: > > and AFIAK, Maxime Devos is working on new build system called > > "Antioxidant", which can build rust application without cargo (Yes, > > invoke rustc directly!), The new build system will cache the rlib > > intermediate r

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-25 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, just a quick reply with what I do personally as one irrelevant data point :) Am Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 08:07:53AM + schrieb Attila Lendvai: > i couldn't even find out which tools are used by those who are comfortable > with the email based workflow. i looked around once, even in the man

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-08-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 10:27:31AM -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: > > I can't ever seem to get the GNU style commit messages correct. > Neither can I. The style apparently helps with automated maintenance > of the changelog, b

Re: poetry: python-poetry?

2023-07-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 09:25:43PM -0700 schrieb Andy Tai: > curious poetry is not named python-poetry in Guix as following > convention of most python packages See here: https://guix.gnu.org/de/manual/devel/en/html_node/Python-Modules.html The idea is that "libraries" (or "modules") start wit

Re: pending mate upgrade patches to 1.26

2023-07-24 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 09:28:38AM -0700 schrieb Andy Tai: > Hi, these patches have been merged by Mr. Song (iyzs...@envs.net) . He worked > to get these built without the two extra patches. Thanks So closing the bugs https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64001 and https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64012 ;

Re: Scheduled monthly update for (gnu packages astronomy)

2023-07-24 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 10:36:26PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > You’re now well known so pretty much the only thing I would wait for as > a reviewer before applying these updates is (1) a green light from > qa.guix, This looks like it lags behind now. > and (2) a bit of spare time. Ah, we sh

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