Hello Guix! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> 1. ‘core-updates’ merged. We’re almost there! > > 2. ‘wip-installer’ retested, and probably merged. > > I think the prerequisite for it would be to do some more testing. > Last time people reported glitches here and there but John has > done quite a bit of work since then. John: what about doing > another round of tests? > > In the installation image, we should probably make the installer > optional and mark it as “beta” or something like that. That will > leave us time to iron out remaining issues, and will avoid having > people expect a rock-solid Debian-style installer. > > As far as review is concerned, we can probably do a quick and > lightweight review process since that’s quite a big chunk of code > and we don’t want the branch to block indefinitely. So we can do > that quick process, and then incrementally improve it if needed. > I think it’s a reasonable approach given that the installer is > mostly an independent component. > > John, everyone: thoughts? > > 3. UEFI support documented and possibly improved. > > We can certainly document the UEFI setup and add the /boot/efi > partition in some of the ‘operating-system’ examples. > > The more difficult part is the installation: do we need to make a > second, UEFI-specific, installation image? When I installed > GuixSD on UEFI, I booted our installation image as “legacy”, but > then GRUB would default to a legacy install, not a UEFI install: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-12/msg00799.html > > I’m not sure exactly what needs to be done. Thoughts? > > 4. Fix low-hanging fruits at <https://bugs.gnu.org/guix>; your help > welcome! I’m going to be mostly away for a week, but it would be nice if we could release after that, wouldn’t it? I think we’ll have to postpone work on the installer though since that would leave too little time now. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo’.
