Re: Come watch a live stream coding session for the Hurd

2024-06-18 Thread Matt
On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:24:02 +0200 Almudena Garcia wrote --- > I've upload the recording to youtube. Currently is processing in HD. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ7bWzsL7Ps Thank you! This is great! > There was some problems, and there are some minutes in which the image keep

Re: Come watch a live stream coding session for the Hurd

2024-06-01 Thread Matt
On Fri, 31 May 2024 11:30:52 +0200wrote --- > If you want to come, then at 2pm UTC, just point your modern web > browser at https://jitsi.member.fsf.org/Hurd-code-jam and we'll > have some fun! If there is a password, it'll be HURD. I can > probably record the session, but I don't r

Re: [PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-05-26 Thread Matt
On Sat, 11 May 2024 10:14:15 +0200 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote --- > Instead, there already is advice for .config/guix/current documented in > the Guix manual’s Getting Started section. The advice should be a > cross-reference that users should follow the steps from Getting Started, >

Re: [PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-05-10 Thread Matt
On Tue, 07 May 2024 22:41:33 +0200 Vagrant Cascadian wrote --- > On 2024-05-07, m...@excalamus.com wrote: > > #+begin_quote > > 6.7 L37 true for Guix System as well? > > The result of running ‘guix pull’ is a “profile” available under > > ‘~/.config/guix/current’ containing the late

[PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-05-07 Thread Matt
We're working through a list of feedback one item at a time: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-01/msg00117.html We have completed the first five items. The sixth item was fixed already in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=cb3f833aaa5326e653b128bfd7b13d553f7c2a

[PATCH] Fix typo (Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-22 Thread Matt
We're working through a list of feedback one item at a time: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-01/msg00117.html We have completed the first four items. The next item reported is: #+begin_quote 3.8 Installing Guix in a Virtual Machine L25 in an vm should be in a vm #+end_quote

Re: Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-20 Thread Matt
On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:56:13 +0200 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote --- > Hello Matt, pushed as 86fb0e039bf30cf85e2066401f9a384427c47ea8. > > I was bold enough to retain the xref change in (Setting Up the Daemon) > prompted by Ludo, because starting a sentence w

Re: Creating a documentation team?

2024-04-20 Thread Matt
On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:09:53 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote --- > Hi Florian and all, > > I figure you’ve been doing a lot of review and writing of the manual. > Should we create a documentation team, of which you could be a honorary > member? :-) > > I feel like ensuring doc cons

Re: Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-18 Thread Matt
On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:43:23 +0200 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote --- > Hi Matt. When triple checking, I read in “info "(texinfo)@pxref"”: > >In past versions of Texinfo, it was not allowed to write punctuation > after a '@pxref', so it cou

Re: Online social and patch review session on Monday

2024-04-15 Thread Matt
I wasn't able to make it today, unfortunately. Hope you're all having, or had, a good time. I'm looking forward to joining you next time. Thanks again for running these!

Re: Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-15 Thread Matt
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:58:50 +0200 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote --- > Do you agree that I should commit your docs correction with @pxref? > I believe it is an improvement over current “see @ref”, even though it > looks different in the info reader. Yes, I agree and thank you for

Re: Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-14 Thread Matt
of *see, but it’s still > right, if Matt you agree. Yes, rereading the linked docs, it is as you say. The problem is that the Emacs Info reader incorrectly renders cross-references by default. I was reading the Texinfo documentation in Emacs. The default Emacs rendering of the Texinfo info

Re: Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-13 Thread Matt
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:16:39 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote --- > > See @ref{Substitutes} for how to allow the daemon to download pre-built > > binaries. > > Nitpick: this works but I believe the recommended approach is > “@xref{Substitutes} for how…”. > > > https://www.gnu.org

Re: Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-12 Thread Matt
We're working through a list of feedback one item at a time: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-01/msg00117.html We have completed the first three items. The next item reported is: #+begin_quote 3.7 After System Installation L27 Libera_Chat, why the underscore. It is colored as w

Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-10 Thread Matt
We're working through a list of feedback one item at a time: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-01/msg00117.html We have completed the first two items. The next item reported is: #+begin_quote 2.4 Setting up the deamon Seems like an issue with info. Have seen this in the Emacs

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

2024-03-16 Thread Matt
documentation changes than how I've handled them here (that is, in one ever evolving diff), 3) compile a list of deferred actions, 4) compile a list of deferred topics, and 5) address points 3 and 4 according to 2. On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:54:01 +0100 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote --- > Hi

doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

2024-03-10 Thread Matt
y “complete Guix operating system”? *complete* GNU operating > system maybe should only be used for GNU/Hurd. That line is directly copied from the current manual: https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html#FOOT4 I saw this and I agree with you. It would be better stat

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-03-06 Thread Matt
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:15:05 +0100 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote --- > Thank you Matt for the suggested diff. Thank you for taking the time to review it! > > - Places directions for 'guix-install.sh' after directions to use > > distribution-specific

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-03-02 Thread Matt
We're working through a list of feedback one item at a time: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-01/msg00117.html We have completed an item and are ready to work on the next one: #+begin_quote ,** Binary Installation L88 and L95 ~root is weird. Should be root or simply ~ for the u

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-28 Thread Matt
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:51:16 +0100 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote --- > ...and apologise if I still cannot do more to help. We do what we can when we can. And you have done things to help. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and perspective! If there's nothing you can do at the moment,

Re: Google Season of Docs 2024

2024-02-27 Thread Matt
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:18:33 +0100 Adam McCartney wrote --- > > 2. Would one of you readers be interested by being technical writer? > > 3. Any for improving the documentation? I'm always interested in improving the Guix documentation. > I'm quite new to guix, so reading through man

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-02-23 Thread Matt
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 03:46:29 +0100 Maxim Cournoyer wrote --- > Great, sounds good. I've checked your v2 update, but opted to keep > things as they are (following my own edition of your initial work, which > was committed). No problem, I think what you did looks good. > Thank you

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-02-21 Thread Matt
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:20:19 +0100 Maxim Cournoyer wrote --- > Thanks for the follow-up. Thank you! Seems like we were looking at it at about the same time :) > Like Josselin, I prefer to keep the mention that the tarball archive > includes the transitive dependencies of Guix (it'

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-02-21 Thread Matt
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:55:46 +0100 Josselin Poiret wrote --- > Matt m...@excalamus.com> writes: > > > Specific mention of installing Guix's dependencies was removed. Guix > > being installed implies that its dependencies are also installed. > >

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-02-18 Thread Matt
Friendly bump. Awaiting feedback or guidance.

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-01-26 Thread Matt
Friendly bump. Attached is a suggested diff. A previous suggestion was made to change "system" to the proper noun "System", as in the "Guix System", within the Binary Installation section. The change would occur in a warning that moving unpacked binary tarballs as directed on existing Guix in

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-01-19 Thread Matt
steps in "Binary Installation," I suggest we remove this sentence and revise the introduction paragraph to make sure current Guix users skip this section. -- Matt Trzcinski Emacs Org contributor (ob-shell) Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org Support Org development at https://liberapay.com/org-mode

Re: Guix at 37C3 Chaos Communication Congress in late Dec?

2024-01-18 Thread Matt
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:25:19 +0100 Andreas Enge wrote --- > And my (admittedly dated) experience seems to indicate that there is not > much point in joining non-existant Lisp forces. I'm not sure what you mean by this statement.

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix cookbook manual

2024-01-15 Thread Matt
On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:15:57 +0100 Christian Miller wrote --- > I read the cookbook on revision > ee7c9d254117fa470686210ad2ef5e7f1ba4fefc using Emacs in TTY mode. > > Here are some things I noticed: Thank you for taking the time to write these up! -- Matt Trzcins

Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual

2024-01-15 Thread Matt
;s in bad taste to mention them. I find such feedback helpful towards correcting the problems you experience. I appreciate you taking the time to write them all up. It's nice to know someone reads the manual! :) -- Matt Trzcinski Emacs Org contributor (ob-shell) Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org Support Org development at https://liberapay.com/org-mode

Re: Guix at 37C3 Chaos Communication Congress in late Dec?

2024-01-02 Thread Matt
I enjoyed reading the retrospective. It sounds like people had fun. I'm sure the ones who asked questions appreciated the opportunity to ask them in person and connect with others in the community. Thanks for putting it together!

Re: Guix at 37C3 Chaos Communication Congress in late Dec?

2023-12-12 Thread Matt
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:56:04 +0100 Fabio Natali wrote --- > If anyone has any idea/feedback - or is planning to also be at Congress > - I'd be delighted to know. Hi, I'm new to Hamburg and would like to participate in one of your sessions. I also see that tickets are €175! Whoa!

Re: git send-email

2023-11-19 Thread Matt
On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:22:47 +0100 Philip McGrath wrote --- > 2. I wish there were a Guix package I could install to read the HTML > documentation locally. This is probably the simplest way: 1. guix shell wget 2. wget https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html According to the docs

Re: Enabling contribution through documentation

2023-11-10 Thread Matt
On Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:43:07 +0100 Samuel Christie wrote --- > > Hello Matt; sorry, I've been distracted and almost missed your reply a few > weeks ago. Not a problem! I've been distracted, too. :) > Any thoughts on process? Maybe we could have a repo managed

Useful Info related Emacs functions (was Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date)

2023-10-18 Thread Matt
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:55:17 +0200 Simon Tournier wrote --- > On Sat, 14 Oct 2023 at 12:11, Maxim Cournoyer maxim.courno...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Not to preach, but I've spent some time looking at 'info info' once and > > I'm sold to it now. I basically use these keys: 'g' t

Re: Enabling contribution through documentation

2023-10-16 Thread Matt
One elephant was already spoken about. Your message points toward another: the Guile documentation. The Guile documentation needs significant editing. This is a problem because Guix is forever bound to Guile. For every benefit Guix gains from Guile, it also suffers by inheriting its shortcomi

Re: Guix related things in Germany at the end of October/start of November

2023-09-08 Thread Matt
On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:28:09 +0200 Christopher Baines wrote --- > Is anyone else planning to attend these events, or otherwise interested > in meeting up in Germany around these dates? I recently moved to Hamburg. Thank you for informing the list (and particularly me) of these even

Plover plugin manager not working

2023-06-29 Thread Matt
I use the plover package for input and its plugin manager stopped working sometime last month. I've been getting by without it (the base application loads and functions fine), occasionly trying to find the cause of the problem. Unfortunately, I've had no success fixing it. Going back in my pa

QtTextToSpeech

2022-11-21 Thread Matt
I'm trying to get Text-To-Speech included within the python-pyqt package. It looks like the definition is simply missing a declaration for qtspeech (patch attached). I updated the definition, the package builds, and I'm now able to import the QtTextToSpeech module. However, I'm not able to fin

Re: Guix Plover package issue

2022-08-28 Thread Matt
On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:47:47 -0400 Maxime Devos wrote --- > Given that it does not exist, maybe you need 'plover' instead of > python-plover. Ah, yes. That works. Thank you.

Guix Plover package issue

2022-08-28 Thread Matt
I'm trying to use plugins with the version of Plover packaged in Guix. For some reason, Plover isn't showing the plugin interface. There is normally a button which says "plugins". Within Guix, that button isn't there. The Plover documentation says that the plugin installer can be accessed throug

Re: WhereIsEveryone, Guix Packaging Meetup Tomorrow, April 24th

2022-04-24 Thread Matt
Dang, just seeing this now! Hope y'all had fun. I'll catch you on the next one.

Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

2022-03-18 Thread Matt
On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:04:13 -0400 Vagrant Cascadian wrote > I haven't really done this sort of thing virtually before; Where would > be a good place to host it? As an FSF associate member, you get access to the FSF's Jitsi meet instance (https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits).

Re: Interest in "guix lint" Meetup?

2022-03-17 Thread Matt
On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:04:13 -0400 Vagrant Cascadian wrote > The description and synopsis fixes are generally pretty easy, so might > make for good first steps for someone wanting to get familiar with the > process of contributing without having to invest a whole lot of time and

Re: Creating subtitles for the Guix Days videos!

2022-03-05 Thread Matt
On Sat, 05 Mar 2022 13:23:22 -0500 Blake Shaw wrote > Thank you so much! Thats awesome work. I'll take a look at the parts > that were difficult... but I'm not sure what software I need to use this > file format. Lmk and I'll get you the corrections. You're welcome. I used aegis

Re: Creating subtitles for the Guix Days videos!

2022-03-05 Thread Matt
On Sat, 05 Mar 2022 05:01:35 -0500 Oliver Propst wrote > On 2022-03-05 06:30, Matt wrote: > > I've started on the "Deep Dive into the Guile Docs & Makeover Proposal" > > talk. > > I might be interested to help with adding > subtitl

Re: Creating subtitles for the Guix Days videos!

2022-03-04 Thread Matt
I've started on the "Deep Dive into the Guile Docs & Makeover Proposal" talk. I'm only about 4:15 in and it's a long one, like 79 minutes. If any wants to split it up, let me know. Otherwise I'll just chip away at it in between life. guix-days-2022-documentation.ass Description: Binary data

Re: Creating subtitles for the Guix Days videos!

2022-03-04 Thread Matt
On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:44:18 -0500 Matt wrote > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:18:42 -0500 Matt wrote > > > I've started working on the "Dreaming of better patch review". This is > great steno practice! I'm (finally) done!

Re: Creating subtitles for the Guix Days videos!

2022-03-01 Thread Matt
On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:18:42 -0500 Matt wrote > I've started working on the "Dreaming of better patch review". This is > great steno practice! Got to about the 9:21 mark. Putting my work so far here in case I get abducted by aliens before I can complete

Re: Creating subtitles for the Guix Days videos!

2022-03-01 Thread Matt
On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:36:19 -0500 Julien Lepiller wrote > Hi Guix! > > I'm looking for volunteers to create English subtitles for the Guix Days > talks. It would be great for people who are not very good with spoken > English but who can still understand text. > > We have c

Re: Documentation of what is appropriate for #guix?

2022-02-20 Thread Matt
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:36:30 -0500 Vagrant Cascadian wrote > I admittedly forget to check the messages from chanserv for channels I > frequent regularly, having personally grown accustomed to the norms of > the channel... In my opinion, it's easy to miss. I had to actively loo

Re: Documentation of what is appropriate for #guix?

2022-02-19 Thread Matt
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:33:47 -0500 Vagrant Cascadian wrote > Every now and then someone stumbles into #guix and ask questions that > I've gleaned over time are off-topic (e.g. non-free software). While I > have a pretty good idea what is appropriate for the channel, it is not > c

Re: Profile definition, was Re: bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-18 Thread Matt
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:36:20 -0500 Ludovic Courtès wrote > Hi, > > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:56:20PM -0500, Matt wrote: > >> Leo is 100% correct that my understanding is still rather weak. I'll do > >&

Profile definition, was Re: bug#53224: Cookbook recipe about profile collisions

2022-01-17 Thread Matt
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:16:28 -0500 Ludovic Courtès wrote > > This person spent a lot of time trying to understand the situation and > > writing the blog post, but their understanding is still rather weak. > > To be fair, the person didn’t look for “profile” in the manual. I’m

Re: Document /homeless-shelter?

2022-01-16 Thread Matt
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:25:57 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 12:38:52PM -0500, Matt wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH] Document /homeless-shelter > > I pushed a simpler addition to the manual: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.g

Re: Document /homeless-shelter?

2022-01-16 Thread Matt
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:20:49 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote > It could be documented briefly in the manual section Build Environment > Setup. How does this look? >From 34fcd075efad1577aa139012c5d2fccf44e10058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:30

Document /homeless-shelter?

2022-01-15 Thread Matt
In the IRC, someone asked about an error message: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/homeless-shelter' This error happened when trying to build a Python package, python-libpysal. The solution was to set HOME to /tmp: (arguments `(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-p

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-12 Thread Matt
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:41:10 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote > On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 04:12:57PM -0500, Matt wrote: > > I did. Maybe you missed the two blog posts I linked in the previous > > email? > > Yeah, I did miss that you intended to contribute

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:30:22 -0500 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote > Hullo Matt, > > Matt 写道: > > I feel like it also says that community isn't important to us. > > I understand how you could reach a flawed conclusion from a flawed > assumption:

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:18:25 -0500 Ricardo Wurmus wrote > This is where we disagree. I’ve wasted so much time in my life > following outdated or wrong instructions on forums or wikis. I really > don’t want to see anything half-baked anywhere near this project. There > are few

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:57:03 -0500 Matt wrote > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 20:20:30 -0500 jgart wrote > > > Have you read ambrevar's post called 'Guix Profiles in Practice'? > > > > Unfortunately ambrevar's blog see

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 20:20:30 -0500 jgart wrote > Have you read ambrevar's post called 'Guix Profiles in Practice'? > > Unfortunately ambrevar's blog seems to be down at the moment: > > https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-profiles/index.html > No, I haven't. Thanks! It's archived: ht

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:17:43 -0500 Ricardo Wurmus wrote > > Matt writes: > > > To me, it says something like, we don't actually care about your > > contribution: you have to literally buy in first. > > No, you do not. I stand corrected.

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 03:29:35 -0500 Josua Stingelin wrote > I've been following the gnunet for a while so I felt qualified to comment. > > > Concern 1: guix will be soon be distributed over gnunet > Guix could provide an endpoint in the gnunet network for users that prefer to > u

Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:21:51 -0500 zimoun wrote > (On a side note between parenthesis, we should avoid to fall into the > "Package Definition" tutorial fallacy; as explained here for monads > https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fall

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:24:20 -0500 jgart wrote > I'm looking forward to having you at the next docs meetup: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-01/msg00189.html > > Are there any particular sections in the guix manual that you would like > to work on in the m

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
> I don't know how many people in the community have > non-CS/Unix/programming backgrounds so I share some personal thoughts > below. It's not that I want to share my life, but it might resonate > with the experiences of others. Thank you for sharing your story. It resonates with me as mine i

Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
ime ago, an "awesome list" had been started and now, > quickly searching, I find 2: > > https://github.com/techenthusiastsorg/awesome-guix > https://sr.ht/~lle-bout/awesome-guix/ > > Therefore, doing so... > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 at 17:25, Matt wrote: >

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
> There are definitely wikis which use fairly simple markup > (e.g. markdown) and can usefully be read and updated online via a web > interface and git offline or online. The one I'm most familiar with is > ikiwiki (available in guix), though don't have a lot of experience > updating it via th

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Matt
> There is something here: > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix Good point and it's already linked from the Guix homepage. Trouble is, it only seems editable by FSF associate members (which costs $120 or $60 for students). Am I missing something? While that meets the technical requiremen

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-10 Thread Matt
> Please don't misinterpret the following comments. But I don't see how the > 1st one > could land in a cookbook. You're fine, I more or less agree with you. I think something like it with a different package would be helpful. What I wrote probably isn't it. > Yes, I'm not a fan of wi

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-10 Thread Matt
> Also if I understand things correctly there are > actually plans to host a documentation meetup this Saturday (maybe at > around 10:30 AM ET as the last ones). Thank you! I should be able to attend. Is that January 15, at 10:30 am EST using https://meet.nixnet.services/b/jga-rtw-ahw-yky?

Guix wiki

2022-01-09 Thread Matt
The subject of a wiki came up in the Guix Documentation Meetup thread. The last time it seems a wiki was mentioned was in 2015[fn:1]. Since it's been more than 5 years and the Guix community has grown, I feel it's worth bringing up again. The 2015 post expressed problems with the manual, that it

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-09 Thread Matt
> I see that this all seems confusing. Thank you for your response and for acknowledging my perspective. Yes, I find many things about the documentation process confusing. I can't speak for others, but I get the strong sense that I'm not alone in that feeling. > If you have something to >

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-08 Thread Matt
> > I would like for Guix to host a community wiki (in addition to a more > > discoverable official documentation). > > That’s the purpose of the Cookbook, which is open to all contributors. The cookbook is a great resource. I'd like to contribute to it. Let me walk through what that look

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-08 Thread Matt
> Someone was frustrated there was no wiki, so they started that, but it's not > official at all. Miraheze hosts other wikis, like the bootstrappable wiki, I > think it's ok, but if we had a wiki, it should rather be hosted on gnu or > guix infrastructure. Thank you for clarifying. I now

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-08 Thread Matt
> I would like for Guix to host a community wiki Agreed. Ironically, Guix already has two of them. 1. goto gnu.guix.org 2. Select wiki from the help menu 3. Discover that linked wiki is not a community wiki 4. Click the (supposed) community wiki: https://guix.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Is

Re: Guix Documentation Meetup

2022-01-07 Thread Matt
I want to be a part of this. I feel like I've been rubbing two sticks together while it seems some people out there have Zippo lighters. A real-time conversation, some paired programming, or simply looking over the shoulder of someone who knows what they're doing would go a long way. I have be

Re: Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-19 Thread Matt Newport
Purism mostly disables the Intel ME, at least in theory: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/ https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/ Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, April 19, 2019 4:59 AM, Tobias Platen