Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

2020-03-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
John Soo writes: > It can be hard to review a patchset with multiple revisions > (particularly when sent as attachments). I agree. > It is hard to find how patchsets differ - let alone where > revisions start and end. Do you have an idea how to improve this? Should we use, for example, the

New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.1.0-pre1)

2020-03-30 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the Russian team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/ru.po (We can arrange things

Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

2020-03-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Vincent Legoll writes: > Searching with "mdate:2w..now" does show a single issue, > is that really so ? mdate actually no longer exists. It was used when we queried the debbugs service directly. Now that we only query a local database we only have “date”. I’ll update the help. -- Ricardo

Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

2020-03-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:07 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > mdate actually no longer exists. It was used when we queried the > debbugs service directly. Now that we only query a local database we > only have “date”. I’ll update the help. Thanks for the update, and many thanks for working on this.

Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

2020-03-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > So my recommendation would be to fix [4] specifically for ‘guix-daemon’ > by adding a ‘set-proxy’ action or something. Trying to understand what that would imply, I stumbled upon my ignorance of how to test attempts at implementing t

Re: non-deterministic test suite failure for diffoscope

2020-03-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-03-05, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I've occasionally seen non-deterministic failures in diffoscope's test > suite only on GNU Guix, and wondering if someone more familiar with how > guix's python-build-system calls pytest could look into it. The bug is > reported upstream here: > > https:/

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

2020-03-30 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
I have opened bugs for the issues, so we don't loose them. On 25.03.20 22:32, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > Other findings > == > * You can't shutdown or reboot. There is now button in MATE nor in GDM > after logging outhttp://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40327 > * If you inst

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

2020-03-30 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
On 25.03.20 22:58, sirgazil wrote: > Other problems I noticed in 1.22 were: > > * Overlapping icons in panel applets. I added some applets to the panel. Their icons doesn't overlap. At least not to my eyes :) > * Not possible to add/remove workspaces. You mean the workspace switcher in the applet

Redox OS?

2020-03-30 Thread bijan ghavami-kia
I am very interested in guix and am happy to see the hurd being ported as well as all the wonderful developments recently with guile 3 and bootstrapping, so I hope it's not sacrilige to ask whether anyone has looked at this new rust based microkernal https://www.redox-os.org/ https://gitlab.redo

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

2020-03-30 Thread sirgazil
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:43:58 -0500 Jonathan Brielmaier wrote > On 25.03.20 22:58, sirgazil wrote: > > Other problems I noticed in 1.22 were: > > > > * Overlapping icons in panel applets. > I added some applets to the panel. Their icons doesn't overlap. At least > not to my eyes :

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

2020-03-30 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
On 30.03.20 22:42, sirgazil wrote: > > > * Not possible to add/remove workspaces. > > You mean the workspace switcher in the applet panel? Or do you mean that > > one cannot reduce/increase the number of shown workspaces (default: 4)? > > This also doesn't work at 1.24. > > When I right-clicked

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

2020-03-30 Thread sirgazil
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:43:42 -0500 Jonathan Brielmaier wrote > On 30.03.20 22:42, sirgazil wrote: > > > > * Not possible to add/remove workspaces. > > > You mean the workspace switcher in the applet panel? Or do you mean that > > > one cannot reduce/increase the number of shown

Re: LHC for guixHPC?

2020-03-30 Thread bijan ghavami-kia
Thank you kindly for the reply! I have one question born out of my ignorance, so please be patient with me; I am looking at the various packages, which belong to various repos eg CRAN, TeXlive etc; for the julia language..., is there a similar thing, or the packages are through the julia built i

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

2020-03-30 Thread sirgazil
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:43:42 -0500 Jonathan Brielmaier wrote > On 30.03.20 22:42, sirgazil wrote: > > > > * Not possible to add/remove workspaces. > > > You mean the workspace switcher in the applet panel? Or do you mean that > > > one cannot reduce/increase the number of shown

Patchwork + the Guix Data Service for assisting with patch review

2020-03-30 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, I sent out an email [1] yesterday on data.guix.gnu.org and the Guix Data Service software that runs there, but I focused that email around data.guix.gnu.org, this email relates in some way to the first application of the Guix Data Service, which was the prototype I set up for automating parts

Re: native or not

2020-03-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello Mathieu, On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 8:57 AM Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Are those changes useful to do on their own ? > > Well yes it may reduce the closure size of the package (run `guix size > sudo`) to get it. I'm not seeing any size difference, but groff is not in the output: on master,

[CfP] 2020 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop

2020-03-30 Thread Jason Hemann
Hello, Thank you for your attention, and my apologies for any duplication you receive. Please find below the Call for Papers for the *2020 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop*. We look forward to your submissions. *Call for Papers*The 2020 Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop is cal

Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

2020-03-30 Thread John Soo
Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> It is hard to find how patchsets differ - let alone where >> revisions start and end. > > Do you have an idea how to improve this? Should we use, for example, > the message subject to detect revisions? (E.g. [PATCH 3/3] will > indicate that the end of the patch set has

Re: native or not

2020-03-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
Here is a set of patches, for starting discussion... I only build-tested them natively on/for x86_64 (and cross built for aarch64 for the sudo one) On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:25 PM Vincent Legoll wrote: > > Hello Mathieu, > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 8:57 AM Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > > Are tho

Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

2020-03-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, that's a great project, I hope to be able to lend a hand, here and there... -- Vincent Legoll

Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

2020-03-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-03-30, Brice Waegeneire wrote: > I know it's quite late to submit a GSOC proposal but here it's. > I would like to work on the project suggested by Danny to > add PXE support to Guix. Which has been requested several > times on IRC and in the ML. This would get us a step closer > to provisi

Re: [GSOC 2020] Final proposal

2020-03-30 Thread Alberto EFG
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Alberto, > >> Hello, this is my final proposal for GSoC, there is still time to do >> some changes in case anyone has feedback, otherwise this is it :) > > Thank you for this thorough proposal! > > For 8.5 it would be good to provide criteria that allow us to evaluate

GSOC Draft Proposal

2020-03-30 Thread Steven vanZyl
Hello all, I am a prospective Google Summer of Code student who would like to work on improving the Guix importer system and writing some new ones for the Go Modules and Arch Linux PKGBUILD formats. I admit that I am a rather late with this, but the last month has been a bit more hectic than we'd