Re: Release progress, week 1

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:19:48PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Release progress: week 1.
> 
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > Here’s a list of things to do to get there:
> >
> >   • Merge ‘staging’ (?).  What’s the status of that one, it seemed ready
> >     a couple of weeks ago, but then I lost track of it.  Marius?
> 
> Marius, any update?

There's a commit by mhw I'd like to get in, it causes a rebuild of the
rust bootstrap but makes it take far less resources to build.

> Chris, does data.guix.gnu.org have enough info to provide insights?
> 
> >   • Get base binaries on all supported architectures in a timely
> >     fashion, or drop some of the architectures.
> 
> There was progress on i686-linux since last week:
> 
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58366
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58352
> 
> I’m also making slow progress on making childhurds usable on the ci.guix
> infrastructure (and probably elsewhere) for i586-gnu builds:
> 
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58320
> 
> ‘make assert-binaries-available’ reports 91.9% right now (commit
> 8b192c5550213911f930594f4fd7386f36618237).

I'm seeing 92.5% on staging, so if we're still planning on merging that
first IMO that branch is a bit more important.

> >   • Address the blockers of <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53214>, most of
> >     which are issues in the installer.
> 
> Mathieu fixed <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57232> today.
> 
> Discussions are ongoing regarding <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55360>.
> 
> How about meeting on #guix on IRC tomorrow Friday at 2PM CEST (UTC+2) to
> discuss the issues above and distribute work among ourselves?  Who’s in?
> 
> Ludo’.

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