What’s next?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

So, now that 1.3.0 is out the door, what’s next?!

Here’s my wish list of things that look achievable within 4 to 6 months
(I hope to help on some of these):

  • Merging Guix Home.

  • Completing and consolidating Disarchive support (see
    <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47336>): continuously building the
    Disarchive database, making sure it’s replicated or backed up by
    SWH, and having a blog post or two explaining the whole endeavor
    (I’m looking at you, Timothy ;-)).

  • Merging Magali’s ‘guix git log’ work.

  • Merging ‘core-updates’, perhaps with a switch to GCC 10?  Perhaps
    with support for “simplified packages” (getting rid of input
    labels)?  We’ll see how much can go in there, but the sooner the
    better.

  • On ‘core-updates’, merging either the full-source bootstrap or
    the reduced bootstrap on ARM, whichever comes first.  :-)

  • Consolidating the POWER9 and AArch64 ports (more build machines
    behind ci.guix!).

  • Maybe a step towards “early cutoffs” to reduce the amount of
    rebuilding (more on that in a future post).

  • Maybe optimized substitute downloads based on
    <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-01/msg00080.html>
    or at the store item level (same as for early cutoffs).

  • Maybe parameterized packages based on
    <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00312.html>.

What do people think?  What’s your wish list?  What do you feel an urge
to hack on?  :-)

Ludo’.