On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 03:31:22PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > it would be nice if core-updates could be part of the release. I have > been waiting for gmp, mpfr and mpc to appear in master. In particular > mpfr-4.1.0 has been released in July 2020, and I have updated it in > core-updates in the same month. Even with a release in April, that makes > 9 months! Otherwise, we would end very far off the 6 months suggested in > doc/contributing.texi. > > If I read the git history correctly, we have merged core-updates for the > last time in May 2020. Shocking numbers. Hopefully the recent progress > in continuous integration will help us reach our goal of more frequent > merging again.
I agree, it's a long time without core-updates. Guix could complete core-updates in time for April 18, at least for x86_64, if many people work on it. Simon, is there a reason you chose April 18 for the release? Or could we choose a later date?
