Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-28 Thread jbranso
January 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM, "Steve George" mailto:st...@futurile.net?to=%22Steve%20George%22%20%3Csteve%40futurile.net%3E > wrote: > > Hi, > > At 'Guix Social' we've been trying to do regular patch review sessions, along > with the talks and socialising. Thanks the link that Suhail gave you

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-28 Thread Steve George
Hi, At 'Guix Social' we've been trying to do regular patch review sessions, along with the talks and socialising. Thanks the link that Suhail gave you. Debbugs has a system called 'usertags', we set some standardised ones and I normally ask around on the mailing lists/IRC for people to tag "

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-27 Thread Suhail Singh
jbra...@dismail.de writes: > What is "patch-review-hackers-list" ? Can you send me some documentation > on how to use it? It's one of a few tags that the london guix meetup has used in the past. See for details, including other re

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-27 Thread jbranso
January 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM, "Suhail Singh" mailto:suhailsingh...@gmail.com?to=%22Suhail%20Singh%22%20%3Csuhailsingh247%40gmail.com%3E > wrote: > > 45mg <45mg.wri...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I'm thinking this could help collect unreviewed work in one place so > > that everyone who want

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-27 Thread Suhail Singh
45mg <45mg.wri...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm thinking this could help collect unreviewed work in one place so > that everyone who wants to can see it. For your situational awareness, note that one such place already exists to an extent today. The usertag "patch-review-hackers-list" has been used b

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-27 Thread 45mg
Hi jbranso, jbra...@dismail.de writes: >> In general, the current work-flow and ethos within the team seems to favour >> incremental changes. Perhaps it's due to being volunteer-driven but I've >> seen multiple big patch-sets get to about 90% and then never make it over >> the line. >> >> The

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-26 Thread indieterminacy
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

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-26 Thread jbranso
January 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM, "Steve George" mailto:st...@futurile.net?to=%22Steve%20George%22%20%3Csteve%40futurile.net%3E > wrote: > > Hi 45mg, > > Thanks for adding your thoughts! > > On 25/01/2025 08:23, 45mg wrote: > > > > > Hi Steve! > > First of all, thank you for all your hard work

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-26 Thread Steve George
Hi 45mg, Thanks for adding your thoughts! On 25/01/2025 08:23, 45mg wrote: Hi Steve! First of all, thank you for all your hard work over these past months. I guess this is as good a place as any for a general discussion thread. For starters, I noticed that lack of support for LUKS + unencryp

Re: Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-25 Thread 45mg
Hi Steve! First of all, thank you for all your hard work over these past months. I guess this is as good a place as any for a general discussion thread. For starters, I noticed that lack of support for LUKS + unencrypted /boot was brought up multiple times. I wanted to note that there is already

Insights for future development from the Guix Survey

2025-01-24 Thread Steve George
Hi, Part 1 [0] and Part 2 [1] of the Guix User and Contributor survey's results are out. These cover the user-focused parts of the survey, with the contributor part still to come. I think the results have some great insights for where Guix development should/could focus, hopefully it will spart