Hello, Mathieu Othacehe <othac...@gnu.org> skribis:
> I think that it would be nice to go a bit further as people tend to use > the stable Guix installer image and given our current release rate, the > future 1.4.0 could last for long. It doesn’t have to be this way. :-) > It would be awesome if we could tackle the following issues before the > release: > > - Guile and library segfaults could be reported as proposed here: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58733. > > - There is a nasty finalizer bug that has probably bitten a lot of users > here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58732. > > - The backtrace page is not displayed correctly if an exception occurs > withing the final PTY: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58734. This one is > maybe not as important but it would be great to have it fixed so that > every part of the installer is well covered by the dump mechanism. > > - Displaying upfront that the WiFi, video card or any other hardware > won't be supported by the installer/linux-libre in the spirit of: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58549 would be great. On this topic, see also the discussion at <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58357>. > For instance, I tested recently the installer on a laptop with an > unsupported WiFi card. The WiFi page is skipped altogether by the > installer which forces the user to plug an ethernet cable without > explaining why. I think we could be a bit more didactic. Thanks for the laundry list! I think fixing Guile-Parted crashes will be #1 on our priority list, let’s see how it goes. Ludo’.
