Re: What’s next?

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 07:47:19PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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’.
> 

+1 on core-updates

package-transformations applied to the operating-system field of the
os-config.

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