Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

[John Kehayias]

Hi Leo,


On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 02:04 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by
> myself. Now I want some more people to help with this.
>

Just wanted to say thanks for this work that goes on mostly behind the
scenes; I've never had any kernel hiccups related to Guix. Let's hope
I didn't just jinx that, but our rollbacks and generation selection at
boot actually make it a lot less painful to experiment here.

John

> The work itself is fairly mechanical and updates occur about once a
> week. It takes about 30 minutes to prepare the patches and push them to
> CI or send them to the mailing list.
>
> When a new major kernel version is released, then we also need to make a
> new kernel config file, which takes a few hours in total.
>
> There is plenty of support for the CI and QA infrastructure to build the
> kernels, so you don't need a powerful computer.
>
> This isn't the sort of the task that needs to be performed by a single
> person. The work could be spread, like most other packages in Guix.
>
> If you want to join in, please reply!
>
> Leo