Re: Release on April 18th?

[zimoun]

Hi Efraim,

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 17:30, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:
 
>> Does it make sense to merge wip-ppc64le and core-updates?
>> 
> I wanted an Easy Win™ and I've pushed a branch wip-ppc64le-for-master,
> which cherry-picked (I think) all of the powerpc64le commits and
> adjusted them to work against master WITHOUT affecting other
> architectures.
>
> I don't know why I thought it was an easy win, but if it looks good to
> everyone I don't see why we couldn't merge powerpc64le into master by
> the end of the week.

So you confirm that cherry-picking from core-updates (as I suggested
here [1]) is a bad idea, i.e., not an Easy Win™.  Anyway.

IIUC, the remaining part is the GCC upgrade, right?


1: <<http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2021-03-05.log#194536>