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Ludovic Courtès |
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20/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak quotation marks and dashes. |
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Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:08:51 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix-artwork.
commit 7924b810c6280e604601937e713f2c6d8acadb86
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 18 18:08:14 2022 +0200
website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak quotation marks and dashes.
* website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md: Tweak quotation marks and
dashes.
---
website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
b/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
index f65c847..1f11ce4 100644
--- a/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
+++ b/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ Quicklisp, as it would make packaging Common Lisp software
even easier.
# Hartmut Goebel
Christian Grothoff ([GNU Taler](https://taler.net/en/)) pointed me to Guix
-early 2016, saying «This will become the new Debian!» and asking me to look at
+early 2016, saying “This will become the new Debian!” and asking me to look at
it for GNU Taler. Well, quickly I was attracted by the ideas of reproducible
build and the ease of packaging software. I also love the one-time usage of
programs without littering my system.
@@ -389,8 +389,8 @@ much more innovative than I could have hoped for. At the
time I also worked
on a project where building binary releases was becoming more unmanageable
with every release because of conflicting requirements. We were slowly
migrating away from C++ to GNU Guile, so while not directly applicable the
-talk ["Your distro is a Scheme
-library"]((https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/guixdistro/) by) by
+talk [“Your distro is a Scheme
+library”](https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/guixdistro/) by
Ludovic Courtès also made me feel: Go Guix!
Using Guix, my intricate dependency problems building binary packages quickly
@@ -404,9 +404,9 @@ created a package.
This is how I found how amazingly helpful and friendly the community was. I
created the MinGW cross build for Guile 2.0 and then "found out" about the
bootstrap binaries: The only packages in Guix that are not built from source.
-Something just did not feel right. The manual said: "_These big chunks of
+Something just did not feel right. The manual said: “_These big chunks of
binary code are practically non-auditable which breaks the source to binary
-transparency that we get in the rest of the package dependency graph_." So, I
+transparency that we get in the rest of the package dependency graph_.” So, I
wrote GNU Mes and started working on solving this problem.
[Twice](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/)
we
[halved](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/)
the size of the bootstrap binaries and the work is still ongoing.
@@ -693,20 +693,20 @@ calling this community their home.
# Simon Tournier
-Back in 2014, I watched the video [«Growing a GNU with
-Guix»](https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/gnuguix/) at FOSDEM but
-the real revelation had been in 2015 with [«GNU Guix: The Emacs of
-Distros»](https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/the_emacs_of_distros/),
+Back in 2014, I watched the video [“Growing a GNU with
+Guix”](https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/gnuguix/) at FOSDEM but
+the real revelation had been in 2015 with [“GNU Guix: The Emacs of
+Distros”](https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/the_emacs_of_distros/),
again at FOSDEM. Then, I was following the development but not using Guix
yet. 2016, new job where I was spending my time to fight against dependencies
and
-[Modulesfiles](https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-modules/-/tree/main/).
+[Modulefiles](https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-modules/-/tree/main/).
Then I have totally jumped in Guix in December 2018. My first interaction
-with the project – and not yet running Guix – was a in-person event in Paris
+with the project — and not yet running Guix — was a in-person event in Paris
before the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org/) workshop.
-Back to home, I proofread cover to cover the French manual – my first
-contribution – and installed Guix on the top of my Debian GNU/Linux system.
-So amazing! Guix fixes many issues I had at work – and introduce new ones^W
+Back to home, I proofread cover to cover the French manual — my first
+contribution — and installed Guix on the top of my Debian GNU/Linux system.
+So amazing! Guix fixes many issues I had at work — and introduce new ones^W
challenges. Plus, thanks to people around, I am learning a lot, both about
technical details and about inter-personal interactions. My wish for the near
future is a community more structured: more events and meetups, more process
@@ -714,9 +714,9 @@ for smoothing the contributions (“teams“ for improving the
reviewing by
sharing the load, RFC for discussing new features, regular releases, etc.),
and more materials for using Guix in various configurations.
-In scientific context, transparency – being able to audit the whole
+In scientific context, transparency — being able to audit the whole
computational environment from the source codes to the production of binaries
-– is one of the keys for a true [reproducible
+— is one of the keys for a true [reproducible
research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility). Since Guix is
transparent by design, it appears to me one part for a solution in tackling
the computational side of the [replication
- 11/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Florian's hyperlinks., (continued)
- 11/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Florian's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 14/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak John's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 15/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Konrad's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 18/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Paul's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 19/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Vagrant's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 07/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Björn's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 09/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Efraim's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 13/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Janneke's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 16/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Manolis's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
- 17/20: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Tweak Mathieu's hyperlinks., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/04/18
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