[PATCH qa-frontpage] Apply incoming patches onto the correct feature branch

It seems that the only available information of the feature branch is in the patch name. --- Hello guix! Thank you for making the QA tool. It seems to me that feature branches are ignored for patches. The patches seem to always be applied on top of master. I get that idea because the base-for-iss

[PATCH qa-frontpage WIP] Add a library to parse patchwork json data

--- Hi! Here is a small library that exports 3 types: − is the collection of metadata that is present in the square brackets in the patch names; − is an individual item of the patch series; − is a whole series of patches; And a set of functions to parse and serialize these. A fun expe

Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, nov. 18-19

Bonsoir Simon, Le mardi 24 octobre 2023 à 22:10 +0200, Simon Tournier a écrit : > Hi, > > Some of us will be in Toulouse, INP-N7, 26 rue Riquet on 18 & 19 > november for Capitole du Libre: > >     https://capitoledulibre.org/ > > We will stand in Village Associatif.  Let us know if you can help

[PATCH qa-frontpage] Sort the patches before applying them to the git branch.

By default, the patches are not ordered. Because of the unreliability of e-mail delivery, they can be received completely out of order. Patchwork may also re-order them, and they may get ordered by commit author date (or, equivalently, e-mail Date header). Both possibilities lead to failure to ap

Re: RFI: Guix XMPP service.

Hello Guix! Le vendredi 08 décembre 2023 à 19:22 +0200, MSavoritias a écrit : > I propose to host an xmpp instance with a room/or some rooms under > the > guix domain. Something like xmpp.guix.gnu.org Are there options for guests?  I don’t know how XMPP or Prosody or cheogram.com may handle thi

Re: RFI: Guix XMPP service.

Le dimanche 10 décembre 2023 à 17:45 +0200, MSavoritias a écrit : > > There is also a trust issue. For acceptance, we need bridging. For > > bridging, we need policing. And for policing, we need people with > > time. > > That's a good question yeah. Whether we want bridging that is. > Personally

Re: Anyone working on more recent glib/gtk4 packages?

Le samedi 16 décembre 2023 à 09:35 -0800, Ian Eure a écrit : > I wanted to package Fractal, which is a native GNOME client for > Matrix chat.  It requires newer versions of glib and gtk than are > currently in Guix.  I believe I’ve seen in IRC that some folks are > working on getting GNOME 43/44

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

Dear guix, Le mercredi 31 janvier 2024 à 10:19 -0800, Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. a écrit : > Either way, I'd appreciate if Eudev could please be fixed in this > core-updates cycle. The fix has been available for more than half a > year. The eudev pa

Re: Core-updates coordination and plans

Hello, Le mercredi 31 janvier 2024 à 17:44 +0100, Josselin Poiret a écrit : > Also, I see that most of the patches that were requested to be merged > into c-u (like the big pages for jemalloc) actually got pushed, are > there any other (well-tested) ones we can go for at the same time as > the > g

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

Le lundi 05 février 2024 à 17:21 +, Suhail a écrit : > > Even if it would be just an auto-close (for the "contributor can't > > work effectively..." case). > > Are there current instances of "contributor can't work effectively"?  > If > not, I propose that decisions concerning those situations

Re: QA is back, who wants to review patches?

Dear QA wizards, Le vendredi 09 février 2024 à 10:44 +, Christopher Baines a écrit : > You just need to not be involved (so you can't review your > own patches) I interpret this as it’s OK to review patches if you asked for a change in the thread, am I correct? Or is this too much involvement

Re: QA is back, who wants to review patches?

Hello Chris, Le vendredi 09 février 2024 à 10:44 +, Christopher Baines a écrit : > Let me know if you have any comments or questions! Thank you for all your work on QA. I can’t help but notice QA is missing a few patches. For instance, issues.guix.gnu.org lists 7 open issues with patches for

Re: On the road to the next release: testing the installer

Le vendredi 09 février 2024 à 12:24 +0100, Tanguy LE CARROUR a écrit : > Grub asked me right away my passphrase and… it did not work! 😱 > After several attempts, I figured out that the keyboard layout > was apparently set to `qwerty` even though I had selected `bépo > AFNOR` > during the configurat

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

Hello! Le jeudi 22 février 2024 à 15:53 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian a écrit : > On 2024-02-22, Steve George wrote: > > We're going to run some online patch review sessions. The first one > > is on *Thursday, 7th March* and you can sign-up here: > > > >   https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Patch

Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

Hello! Le samedi 16 mars 2024 à 17:50 +, Christopher Baines a écrit : > This is probably worth thinking about as Guix is in a similar > situation > regarding publishing source code, and people potentially wanting to > change historical source code both in things Guix packages and Guix > itself

Guix role in a free society

Hello, Free software enables cooperation in a free society. More precisely, it makes it easy for a user of a package to use a new version where the personal information has been corrected. The thread in [1] questions our handling of potential cases where a transgender contributor of Guix or one of

Bootstrap a GNU source distribution from git

Dear Guix, GNU sources are usually shipped as tarballs with some pre-compiled sources included. This can be a bit scary at times, so the question now is, can we skip the tarballs and build everything from human-authored sources? I first want to emphasize that distributing generated sources is an

Re: Contributing to Guix without rDNS

Hello, Le jeudi 30 janvier 2025 à 14:32 -0700, Brennan Vincent a écrit : > an email originating at a residential IP address is by far the > strongest signal for spam that exists. Are we sure about that? Nowadays a lot of routers come with a base firewall dropping outbound traffic to destination p

Grub disk decryption with key file on another device

Dear Guix, I have a fully encrypted disk: it has an EFI partition where I install grub-efi-bootloader and the rest is a single-partition luks device (including the grub configuration /boot). I also have another disk that I can partition however I want. I would like the other disk to store a key

Re: [GCD] Rename “main” branch

Hello! Le samedi 15 février 2025 à 09:42 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler a écrit : > Recent versions of Git support arbitrary initial branches and the > default > branch name is subject to change upstream, at least in part because > the > current default — “master” — may be perceived as harmful.  In

Re: bug#76503: [GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg

Hello, I have only distantly followed the discussion, but this triggers a reaction from me: Le vendredi 14 mars 2025 à 22:45 +0100, Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > and patch tracking to Codeberg, >   a “modern” forge hosted by a non-profit. I would have written “a web-based forge” or web-firt or web