Re: On the quest for a new release model

[Greg Hogan]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 12:43 PM Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The issue, as I see it, is the time commitment required from the
> > release-team.
>
> Correction, the issues (IMO) are (in no particular order):
> 1. the timespan (several weeks)
> 2. uncertainty around total effort
> 3. amount of manual effort involved
>
> It's unclear which of the three above is the rate-limiting-step.

There is also access to hardware. From doc/release.org:

"Steps #2 and #3 require you to have offloading set up so you can
build for all the supported architectures.  For instance, if you’re
running this on an x86_64 machine, you should have ~armhf-linux~,
~aarch64-linux~ and ~powerpc64le-linux~ machines in your
=/etc/guix/machines.scm=. Transparent emulation via QEMU has shown
limits (such as causing test suite failures); real hardware is a
must."

The project download page no longer lists PowerPC, but powerpc64le is
still included among the 1.4.0 binaries. Can the armhf release
artifacts be built on aarch64? That fails for some packages but might
work for releases.

Greg