Hi Guix, Let me spin off last year thread on releases (flavored by an external to the project point of view), with the goal to relaunch the debate on releases.
Disclaimer: the rolling release model is great and more than enough for me, and teams constitute an mportant step forward. Disclaimer 2: guix-system is probably great, but using guix as a foreign package manager is absolutely paramount, and would open the door to all things guix, bringing lots of new users/contributors. Now, any user in the world may install guix and upgrade to latest version, sure. But. First, for the current needs: - distributions privilege and package guix releases (alpine, debian, - arch, etc.), as guix itself does - 1.4.0 dates back from 2 years ago - in my experience, people tend to give guix a try, check obsolete sw, just give up, no matter the remaining advantages - remote ci/cd images need to refer to a release for traceability - apt-get install guix (1.4.0) && guix pull is a painful experience Additionally, releases makes people talk about guix, give an overall positive impression of the community, and are a good argument (and publicity !) in favor of using it (unfortunate, but that’s the way it goes). See emacs devel cycle, for example. Now, for (a very naif) proposal (from a non contributor). - simver[1] is the way to go - devel as the branch for developments, master for releases and security/bug fixes - major should follow core merges to devel - minor should follow non-core teams merges - patch fixes are backported to master Yes, you guess [2] it. Please, consider all the previous as an excuse to motivate the need for releases, not as serious guidelines (I’m not the right person for that.) For what I see around me, guix could easily be used by a larger audience (foreign first, system then). Releases are a real requirement to that goal. Best, [1] https://semver.org/ [2] https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ -- Cayetano Santos GnuPG Key: https://meta.sr.ht/~csantosb.pgp FingerPrint: CCB8 1842 F9D7 058E CD67 377A BF5C DF4D F6BF 6682
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