Hello spacecadet,
On 2025-08-01 17:03, spacecadet wrote:
On 8/1/25 4:42 PM, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
...
the devs are trying to make good relations with any distros/DEs/DMs
they can. I haven't brought up guix to them since I don't consider
myself a representative of the distro, but if anyone's
On 2025-07-10 20:26, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hello,
Edouard Klein writes:
I run guix-hosting.com which does not have enough clients to sustain
me,
and because I hate myself everytime I do any form of marketing, it
does
not grow.
Heh. :-) (I've looked again at the web site and at the API
Hello Daniel,
On 2025-07-10 07:43, Daniel Littlewood wrote:
Hi guix-devel,
I have been working recently on packaging Ruby gems. There is a
particular
feature I have been unable to replicate, namely that gems declare their
dependencies with both a symbolic name and a version range. For
examp
Hello Ekaitz,
On 2025-07-10 08:01, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
On 2025-07-09 23:34, Tomas Volf wrote:
The commit message's purpose isn't to enable people to avoid reading
the
diff; that's an impossible goal. It's to contextualize the diff.
Which, btw, most of the Guix commits DO NOT do.
I belie
Hello Samuel,
On 2025-07-02 14:08, Samuel Christie wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the reactions to the Xlibre project.
The quote from their website is:
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or
any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political
a
Hi Spacecadet,
Im sorry to be a curmudgeon following not only your efforts but also
your active communications, but I feel that I should flag to others here
that there are points of concern regarding the behaviour of XLibre.
Not wanting to get too bogged down in the mire, it appears positions
Hi,
On 2025-05-12 15:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Steve George writes:
Note that 'Deliberate' means to "consider or discuss", and a person
would "vote" at the end of a deliberation period to "to express your
choice or opinion". That is the standard use in English. One doesn't
keep a "Deliberat
Hello Andreas,
On 2025-05-06 07:55, Andreas Enge wrote:
So that a motion does not pass, one either needs 1 person to disapprove
(which is a strong veto right), or 75% to not reply (which is a very
high
barrier).
Andreas
I would assert that providing veto functionality within such a large
On 2025-04-29 08:14, Steve George wrote:
indieterminancy - does that give you enough information and clarity
about the SAC?
Sure, all good!
FWIW, at some point I do intend to form a Prolog team and join Rust's.
However, it would be counter productive at this moment in time.
Jonathan
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the multiple clarifications and emphases regarding various
strands which contribute to the governance of Guix.
I would like to point out that (probably through oversight) the Guix
Foundation's Solidarity Advisory Council is not currently treated as
equivalent to a Team.
“I accept”
On 2025-04-21 14:07, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
Hi Guix,
as the date for the GCD 003 was set to February 18th, the discussion
period actually ended on Saturday already. I have incorporated some
changes on Sunday to realign the proposal with GCD 002 (the Codeberg
one), but barring
Hello Caleb,
Some people wear their values on their chests and others in their
hearts.
The active members in the Guix community live and breath the GNU spirit
and release coding using such licenses.
I am not aware of any momentum regarding Guix using non GNU licenses, so
Im not sure why you
Hello all,
Reading a random fediverse thread, I came across some aspects about
growth of issues and governance around duplications and feature
requests:
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114131748974841455
```
What I gather from the replies is that better issue tracking should work
w
Hello Ekaitz,
Im getting why you (and Christopher in the recent email) have concerns
and thank you for speaking freely.
I personally feel that Liliana (as part of the GCD) has written a
balanced description of the weaknesses inherent within descriptors (both
in terms of recent branch naming,
(nobody has strayed off too far I
should posit).
Id prefer the ruin of this thread than another.
On 2025-02-12 19:09, Ian Eure wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
indieterminacy writes:
Hello,
I believe that the term `Master` for the root branch is an anacronism.
I propose that it is renamed to `The Gulf of
Hello,
I believe that the term `Master` for the root branch is an anacronism.
I propose that it is renamed to `The Gulf of Mexico`.
Unless people have a better suggestion?
Kind regards,
Jonathan
Tanguy and I have booked a restaurant for Thursday.
Its a classic of Art Nouveau architecture, so it should be ambient and
convivial.
We can book more than the provisional 20 envisaged but out of respect
for the venue the sooner we know the numbers the better!
Menu and info here:
https://pa
On 2025-01-26 15:09, jbra...@dismail.de wrote:
January 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM, "Steve George" mailto:st...@futurile.net?to=%22Steve%20George%22%20%3Csteve%40futurile.net%3E
> wrote:
Perhaps we could write a blog post? To highlight some of those things?
Maybe we can encourage someone to look at t
Hello Dan,
On 2025-01-23 18:52, Dan Littlewood wrote:
I will be in Brussels on Friday but not Thursday. It is not totally
clear to me whether there is a gap - I see a couple of people tagged
"Thursday" but not sure if the corresponding Friday is inhabited.
I'm a relative beginner with guix, but
On 2025-01-22 17:20, Andreas Enge wrote:
Hello,
Guix Days and FOSDEM are getting closer, so I am activating myself!
We have had an offer of donation of an aarch64 machine for the build
farm; the board is currently in Strasbourg. Will any of the Guix Days/
FOSDEM participants go through this cit
Cool,
... Im still trying to work out what day of the week that the Day
`futurile` occupies...
On 2025-01-17 18:14, Rostislav Svoboda wrote:
Im marked down for two days, but I will be going to the Friday event
(im
going to a community metrics event on the Thursday).
Also Im stepping out for
Im marked down for two days, but I will be going to the Friday event (im
going to a community metrics event on the Thursday).
Also Im stepping out for a lecture at 230 PM on the Friday.
Perhaps whoever has the stamina to navigate the buggy FSF site can
update that detail, so that they can add t
Hello Andreas,
On 2025-01-15 15:34, Andreas Enge wrote:
...
Concerning consensus, I am mildly worried about deadlocks (including
when trying to modify this RFC/GCD). What happens if some person
insists
on disapproving? (I am reminded of the European Union where one member
state can effectivel
On 2024-12-19 22:17, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Divya Ranjan writes:
Hello,
The other day, after being frustrated of build systems (auto-tools,
meson, maven etc.), I wondered why doesn’t Guix which has such
powerful tools within it (`guix build`, `guix pack` etc.) also not
have a purely Guil
I should point out that I am packaging Scryer-Prolog, which uses Rust in
its underbelly.
As it stands, the divergences of crate versioning means that my package
definition is nearly 60k LOC and Ive had to validate over 1.1k packages
already.
Naturally, some of these are duplicates of Guix pack
Fabio,
Thanks for leading this initiative.
I guess your ambitions go beyond just making London a Guix hub :)
Id encourage you to mention the assembly to the TXR mailinglist:
https://www.kylheku.com/txr-users/
While this Lisp flavour is lacking in numbers its designs and practices
are exemplary
Hello,
Is it too late to have this team having an id name 'cpp' rather than
'c++'?
As a fan of regex its use of the almighty plus sign has wrankled me.
Also, as an outsider Ive always considered cpp to be representative of
both C and C++, rather than a subset.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On 2024-12-0
Hello,
On 2024-12-05 07:13, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
Hi Tomas,
...
I agree it's a bit tedious, both manually and also in diffs. My
personal preference is to leave just one space between the field name
and the value, that also holds for variable bounds in lets, etc., to
avoid the problem (at the
Hello Christopher,
On 2024-11-12 16:23, Christopher Howard wrote:
Hi, if planning to make changes to --help output, could you please try
to preserve the output formatting as much as possible? I'm trying to
fix the bitrot in the emacs-guix "shell commands" code, which actually
parses the --help
Hello Christopher,
On 2024-11-12 15:05, Christopher Howard wrote:
Thank you, Felix. I can't view all of the questions without the
JavaScript, but if Steve or Felix could just copy and paste the
questions once into plain text, that would work.
I would mention experimenting with Elinks (I belie
On 2024-11-01 08:59, Wilko Meyer wrote:
Hi Steve,
Steve George writes:
I've designed a 'Guix User and Contributor Survey' which I'd like to
run to
explore what users love about Guix, and how contributors interact
with the project. I would love feedback on it.
Thanks for putting work into t
:
Hi,
On 2024-10-27 11:00, indieterminacy wrote:
I think a useful measurement of any community is the diversity within
it.
I do think we are a pretty diverse group.
But it all comes to what you consider diverse. Some people brought this
conversation during the Guix Days, probably ignoring the
Hello Ekaitz,
On 2024-10-27 02:01, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
Hi Juliana,
I like some of the points you do here: we should encourage committers
to review patches, and give commit access to those that are focused on
that.
On the other hand, I disagree with your message about GNU and the FSF.
Fir
On 2024-10-26 18:40, Suhail Singh wrote:
Christine Lemmer-Webber writes:
...
Specifically, the bulk of patch submissions in Guix deal with packages.
Barring some core packages, perhaps Guix would be better served by
splitting other packages into a separate channel. The organization and
manage
On 2024-10-25 13:22, Steve George wrote:
On 25 Oct, indieterminacy wrote:
On 2024-10-25 11:37, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ekaitz Zarraga writes:
>
> > Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
> > and doing the dirty job?
>
> For reviews, for ex
On 2024-10-25 11:37, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
Ekaitz Zarraga writes:
Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
and doing the dirty job?
For reviews, for example, one could find an arbitrary set of metrics
and
hand out an award with a monetary component at an annual e
).
Cool!
Its worth pointing out the Lisp dialect, TXR
https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-lisp.html
FWIW, here are some of my notes:
https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/?search=3q+txr
For every Lisp, I try to include a guix manifest to make the
instructions reproducible and I plan to add guides
on
On 2024-09-06 10:09, Andreas Enge wrote:
Hello,
Am Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 11:11:14AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
The way I see it, one of the branches would be tested independently.
The second one would also be tested independently, but on a limited
scope—e.g., x86_64-only, because (1) we usua
On 2024-07-21 01:15, Juliana Sims wrote:
Greetings comrades,
As many of you are likely already aware, the European Union has
recently made plans to cut funding to its Next Generation Internet
(NGI) initiative which funds hundreds of FOSS projects, including many
related to Guix itself. The c
Hello,
Its worth pointing out the work of OpenBSD Amsterdam - which has raised
over €40k for its respective foundation.
Its approach is to donate €10 per VM and €15 per VM renewal and has 850
VMs.
Here are details on its hardware:
https://openbsd.amsterdam/hardware.html
It references this:
On 2024-03-18 15:14, Andreas Enge wrote:
Am Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 04:33:49PM +0200 schrieb MSavoritias:
Actually gitlab already is facing something like that and they are
doing
what was proposed elsewhere: mapping of UUIDs to display names
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/20960
In
Hello,
On 2024-02-23 19:13, Tomas Volf wrote:
On 2024-02-22 23:27:31 +, Steve George wrote:
...
Will the Jitsi link be shared somewhere (here, irc, ...) for those of
us who are
not able to sign up on the page? I am getting this error:
Your IP address has been flagged as a source of spa
people.
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ease, stop throwing your judgement on
people. Potential users or contributors even.
Also, magit.
I use Emacs, love magit, I used to use it daily also at $day_job on
Windows because it's just so good, but I can assure you most of Git
users never heard of it and live their life pretty happ
cHugh
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aster Emacs prior to Guile
(Im highly flow orientated).
I don't think software we use is the main problem, but the fact that we
are not always sensible with other people's experience.
Cheers,
Ekaitz
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cations in for the end of July.
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bican, Mobilizon, thats exuding far too much class :)
Cant make it over but enjoy the chance to lock horns!
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gs are the yellowed clumps of wool that cluster around their
netherregions.
There is a antipodean phrase, 'rattle yer dags!', to mean 'hurry up!',
given
the clumps bouncing around when sheep move quickly.
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make relevant changes?
Thanks,
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acking!
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piles your compiler.
```
https://sr.ht/~amjoseph/ownerboot/
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level utilities and applications.
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the documentation — gets coat
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On 03-01-2023 19:42, Joshua Branson wrote:
indieterminacy writes:
On 03-01-2023 10:08, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi!
Maxim Cournoyer skribis:
Congrats, and yay! It's a hell of a release! :-) Let's try to make
more
punctual ones from now on, and also try to lower the amount of
ma
your work on 1.4.0 !
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On 24-12-2022 09:37, Pjotr Prins wrote:
tis like packages under a X-mas tree
guix xmas add games
guix xmas add tex
guix xmas add paint
guix xmas add payamas
I just guix pulled version 1.4 out of a cracker.
That will make for a happy new year
Thanks all!
Happy holidays everybody!
Jonathan
Unfortunately Fosshost is being wound down, due to organistional
failings at the executive level.
https://fosshost.org/
Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which
requires mitigating at the Guix end?
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oading.
I shall keep you informed.
indieterminacy writes:
[...]
FWIW, Ive been working on Gemini and issue trackers in parrallel to
Genenetwork.
Arun did such a great job with a minimalist setup that I thought it
more
proper to create a bigger ladder (given the reach of all the domai
ith that of the
Emacs-Hyperbole format, Koutliner, as well as the
"recursive-modelling-language" I have been developing Qiuy.
https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/1q20hqh_oqo_parsing_qiuynonical/
As a consequence, it has grown into something different and more
complex. I need to trim th
rience to the next level.
Kind regards,
pinoaffe
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On 12-07-2022 00:44, Joshua Branson wrote:
Sorry for starting this centuries flame war, but I can't help but be
more and more impressed with OpenBSD. It seems ideal for small scale
servers (aka NOT large databases). It tries really hard to be secure
by
default and has great documentation. Wi
Hi Maxime,
On 18-06-2022 14:23, Maxime Devos wrote:
indieterminacy schreef op za 18-06-2022 om 13:53 [+0200]:
Additionally, based upon a decent demonstration on LMDB, I realised
that
my annotation system makes it more feasible to adapt documents into
LDIF
database-like-files (is that the
work's own approach to such concepts to see how such habits
can build out over time:
https://github.com/genenetwork/gn-gemtext-threads
Midway through my NLNet grant (once a move past a hospice related
issue), Ill be integrating two interpreters covering formats (GemText
and Koutliner) and my
John Soo
Maxim Cournoyer
Nicolas Goaziou
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
What do you think?
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Larry Doolittle writes:
> Ludovic and friends -
>
> On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 12:34:47AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis:
>> > Mes has now been ported to M2-Planet and can be bootstrapped using
>> > stage0-posix[0], starting from the 357-byte hex0 binary of the
>> > bo
Attila Lendvai writes:
>
> and especially so for inflation, which is straight out a tax that
> siphons the purchasing power from people who hold cash equivalents
> (i.e. the poor), to the people who own assets (i.e. the
> wealthy)... who are also closer to the source of new money, and
> therefo
Good catch!
TBH, I did wonder whether the feudal eptimology of the English word may
raise eyebrows.
Hartmut Goebel writes:
> Am 23.12.21 um 22:51 schrieb Jonathan McHugh:
>> I reckon 'coterie' is more elegant a term:
>
> IMHO we chould not use this term.
>
> The German translation is "Seilschaf
I wonder if there has been any progress made by Arun Isaac with his program,
Semantically meaningful S-expression diff
https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/sexpressiondiff/
```
Traditional diff implementations, such as GNU Diff, treat files as a
flat list of lines. A tree-diff algorith
Its certainly worth developing more formal clusters.
It would be wise to try and make concerns and research interconnected -
lest we create silos that communicate with other groups less.
Jonathan McHugh
Jack Hill writes:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> I’v
Hi Simon,
Would it be remiss to cross reference contributors to these identified
scripts against Guix contributors (commits, ML messages)?
With that it may be possible to email them a templated message,
featuring:
* The current activity and reason for outreach
* The advantages of providing improv
Hi Arun,
Researching git-shell, I noticed an example of how Less could be
exploited to increase. privileges:
=> https://hackaday.com/2017/05/10/git-shell-bypass-less-is-more/
It suggests enabling the no-pty flag to mitigate this.
I think it would be great to utilise git-shell (and I am intereste
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