Hello!
I think we should release 0.8.3 for mid to end July.
The relevant things to be done include:
• Merging wip-diet and wip-environment, and maybe wip-container,
though that one could just as well be merged afterwards.
• We must sit down and fix as many bugs as possible.
<http://bugs.gnu.org/20765> is a blocker IMO, but help is needed
from Pythonistas. <http://bugs.gnu.org/20888> must be fixed too,
but there are many others.
• Several people reported getting a kernel panic, instead of a Guile
prompt, when something goes wrong during early boot (in the initrd.)
I haven’t been able to reproduce it in a VM; if someone could
reproduce it, that would be great.
There are optimizations that I would like to look into it, though they
are not blocker IMO:
• ‘guix build hydra -n’ literally takes ages, as Eric noted, so that
needs to be investigated.
• ‘guix system’ is quite slow, but it’s apparently computing the same
derivations several times, which must be fixed.
Anything else? Comments?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
