Re: Release progress, week 2

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hey,

Thanks for the update!

>      - armhf-linux is disabled on ci.guix due to improper offloading
>        setup (probably along the lines of
>        <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53463>).  Should we try and reenable
>        it, or should we drop it?
>
>      - powerpc64le-linux is disabled on ci.guix since today
>        (maintenance.git commit
>        d641115e20973731555b586985fa81fbe293aeca).  However it did work
>        until recently and we have one machine to offload to.  Should we
>        fix it or drop it?  Mathieu?

Yeah, we only have a single machine to offload to and each time it is
not reachable, the "guix" specification fails on Cuirass.

That's because we need to offload to a powerpc64le-linux machine in
order to evaluate the guix derivation for that specific architecture
(that's true for all the other architectures).

Given the lack of workers for powerpc64le-linux I think we should drop
it. Regarding armhf-linux we can in theory rely on the overdrives but
we are already struggling on aarch64-linux, we I think we should also
drop it for now.

Focusing on x86_64-linux, i686-linux and aarch64-linux for this release
seems more pragmatic.

>      - ‘guix system init’ will print progress bars instead of dots
>        again (patch available): <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58375>.

Just merged the fix that you reviewed :)

>   • Release issue <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53214> still blocked
>     by 8 open bugs that we should review!

I'll take care of #53194 and #53541. I just closed #52943. It means that
we will have to take care of:

57068 important, Ludovic Courtès    Resizing mcron job in vm-image.tmpl 
interferes with settings
53594 important, Guu, Jin-Cheng     no matching pattern #<package polkit..
52891 normal,pat Konrad Hinsen      [PATCH] guix-install.sh: Run guix.sh script 
in /etc/profile.d last.
49508 important, Leo Famulari       Implement --allow-insecure-transport for 
`guix pull`

Thanks,

Mathieu