Re: The Giraffe; the Pelican et al (was Re: The e(macs)lephant in the room and the Guix Bang)

2023-09-26 Thread indieterminacy
On 25-09-2023 22:35, Simon Tournier wrote: Hi, On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 at 14:13, MSavoritias wrote: So saying that the people who don't know guile or guix need to first contribute docs is pretty ridiculous. Why? Could you explain more why it appears to you “ridiculous”? My frustration seems

Re: New section to easily reference Debbugs URLs within Emacs Debbugs

2023-09-26 Thread Mekeor Melire
2023-09-25 21:53 mek...@posteo.de: Putting all three thoughts together, I'd gather this code suggestion: [2. application/emacs-lisp; new.el]... Sorry, it seems I forgot to apply my first thought in the appended file... (setq bug-reference-url-format "https://issues.guix.gnu.org/%s";). Sorr

[PATCH] web: Include merged_with in graphql .

2023-09-26 Thread Christopher Baines
* mumi/web/graphql.scm (): Include merged_with. --- mumi/web/graphql.scm | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mumi/web/graphql.scm b/mumi/web/graphql.scm index 6dcb8ce..2c7c676 100644 --- a/mumi/web/graphql.scm +++ b/mumi/web/graphql.scm @@ -69,7 +69,17

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Attila Lendvai
> > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual > > information about branches? > > > What do you mean? > > 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0 manual, not the > latest one. This v1.4.0 manual is set in stone and is a snapshot > of Guix at v1.4.0. if Guix

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai wrote: > > > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual > > > information about branches? > > > > What do you mean? > > > > 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0 manual, not the > > latest one. This v1.4.0 manu

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread jgart
Hi Simon and Attila, I like the idea of releasing the website as a rolling release. The issue with keeping the release manual around is in edge cases like these where even though we have an old release manual and a rolling release manual, people contributing are expected to follow the latest pr

Re: is core-updates still a thing?

2023-09-26 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
On 9/24/23 1:27 AM, Andy Tai wrote: Hi, curious if core-updates still a thing?There seems a branch by that name and the manual still says patches causing large number of rebuilds should go to core-updates, at least for these not aiming at a specific feature branch. I have the same question.

Re: is core-updates still a thing?

2023-09-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Andy, Andy Tai writes: > Hi, curious if core-updates still a thing?There seems a branch by > that name and the manual still says patches causing large number of > rebuilds should go to core-updates, at least for these not aiming at a > specific feature branch. It is. We can't have topic

Re: is core-updates still a thing?

2023-09-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Katherine, Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > On 9/24/23 1:27 AM, Andy Tai wrote: >> Hi, curious if core-updates still a thing?There seems a branch by >> that name and the manual still says patches causing large number of >> rebuilds should go to core-updates, at least for these not aiming at

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Simon Tournier writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai wrote: >> > > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual >> > > information about branches? >> > >> > What do you mean? >> > >> > 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0 manual,

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread jgart
> > My expectation for browsing help from a website these days is that ... I concur!

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Peter Polidoro
On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai wrote: if Guix is using a rolling release model, then maybe it's not an unreasonable expectation that the online manual also follows the latest in the git repo, no? maybe we should stop prefixing devel/, and start prefixing the releases? W

Plan for NFS (was: Herding file-systems)

2023-09-26 Thread Bruno Victal
Hi all, I've been thinking on a plan to address this old NFS question. The plan: 1. Allow the file-system `dependencies' field to accept arbitrary shepherd symbols as well. This can be done by having the `dependency->shepherd-service-name' in (gnu services base) also accept matching against a

Re: Plan for NFS (was: Herding file-systems)

2023-09-26 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Hi Bruno, Am Dienstag, dem 26.09.2023 um 19:35 +0100 schrieb Bruno Victal: > Hi all, > > I've been thinking on a plan to address this old NFS question. > > The plan: > >   1. Allow the file-system `dependencies' field to accept arbitrary > shepherd symbols as well. Sure, why not? > This can be

Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

2023-09-26 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, On Tue, Sep 26 2023, Peter Polidoro wrote: > Web searches for "guix manual" do not tend to show the devel > version so it can be difficult for new users to find This entire discussion, and especially Attila's excellent tongue-in-cheek point, probably belongs into Bug#51000. [1] Personally,

Re: Enabling contribution through documentation

2023-09-26 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Ekaitz Zarraga writes: An option is to make some kind of user-story based documentation might help? As a long-time wannabe-contributor who has been intimidated by the unfamiliar process, I agree with this statement. In fact, (to acknowledge the other more controversial branch of this co

Help Packaging Incudine (Common Lisp)

2023-09-26 Thread Théo Tyburn
Hi there, I'm trying to package Incudine, a Music/DSP programming environment for Common Lisp. I'm stuck with the binding of libsndfile. First libsndfile.so could not be found, but I fixed the paths like it is commonly done in other CL packages. Next problem is that somehow the bindings are not wo