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Roadmap for Guix 1.0, 2018

• 'guix pull' & co.
  • 'guix pull' honors ~/.config/guix/channels.scm
    • (guix channels) module provides easy way to build a set of channels
    • (guix inferior) uses that to allow interaction with an arbitrary Guix
  • MAYBE 'guix pull' & commit authentication <https://bugs.gnu.org/22883>
  • 'guix package -m' (?) allows users to specify a Guix channel
  • Profile manifest entries record the channel instance they come from
  • build-self.scm trampoline runs faster
  • 'guix package –upgrade' reverses the order of packages <https://bugs.gnu.org/31142>
• UI/UX
  • Add colors for messages (error, warnings, hints, and possibly build logs)
  • Hide build logs in some UIs, as in ‘wip-ui’ branch & Cuirass
  • MAYBE Rework grafts and profile hooks to run as “build continuations” <https://bugs.gnu.org/28310>
  • Hack something to display what needs to be built upfront (disable grafts)
  • Add ‘guix install’ alias
  • Add ‘guix system –delete-generations’
  • Polish & merge ‘wip-installer’
• core
  • Update & merge ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’
  • MAYBE Merge ‘wip-gexp-hygiene’ if we have a portable way to compute gensyms
  • Use Guile-gcrypt instead of (guix gcrypt) & co.
  • Minimal bootstrap with Mes & co. for i686/x86_64 merged (‘wip-bootstrap’)
  • MAYBE Use Gash instead of Bash during bootstrap
• infrastructure
  • ci.guix.gnu.org points to berlin.guixsd.org
  • ci.guix.gnu.org is the default substitute server; hydra.gnu.org is deprecated
  • ARM build machines (+ qemu-binfmt) added behind berlin.guixsd.org
  • Tatiana's web UI deployed on berlin.guixsd.org
  • Clément's Cuirass improvements deployed (inputs, non-blocking SQLite, etc.)
  • web site available at guix.gnu.org
    • DNS already set up with two entries, but how to do deal with LE certs and all?
  • Mumi web UI available at patches.guix.gnu.org and bugs.guix.gnu.org
  • berlin.guixsd.org has big storage, uses a TTL > 60 days
  • Nar bandwidth issues on berlin fixed (nginx misconfiguration?)
• miscellaneous
  • “GuixSD” renamed to “Guix System”?
  • “Cuirass” renamed to “Guix CI”?
  • Use GDM in ‘%desktop-services’ (this will fix GNOME’s screen locker)
  • 'static-networking-service' supports IPv6
    • requires the use of the Netlink interface on the kernel Linux
    • libnl provides an API for this, with Racket bindings
    • or we could provide bindings for sendmsg(2) and 'struct msghdr'
    • short-term, we could shell out to "ip"
  • TeXlive profile hook <https://bugs.gnu.org/27217>
  • Replace "texlive" dependency with minimal TeXlive unions
  • Fix truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30785>

'guix pull' & co.

DONE 'guix pull' honors ~/.config/guix/channels.scm

• State "DONE" from "TODO" [2018-09-02 Sun 17:12]

(guix channels) module provides easy way to build a set of channels

(guix inferior) uses that to allow interaction with an arbitrary Guix

MAYBE 'guix pull' & commit authentication <https://bugs.gnu.org/22883>

DONE 'guix package -m' (?) allows users to specify a Guix channel

DONE Profile manifest entries record the channel instance they come from

TODO build-self.scm trampoline runs faster

DONE 'guix package –upgrade' reverses the order of packages <https://bugs.gnu.org/31142>

UI/UX

DONE Add colors for messages (error, warnings, hints, and possibly build logs)

DONE Hide build logs in some UIs, as in ‘wip-ui’ branch & Cuirass

MAYBE Rework grafts and profile hooks to run as “build continuations” <https://bugs.gnu.org/28310>

TODO Hack something to display what needs to be built upfront (disable grafts)

DONE Add ‘guix install’ alias

DONE Add ‘guix system –delete-generations’

DONE Polish & merge ‘wip-installer’

core

TODO Update & merge ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’

MAYBE Merge ‘wip-gexp-hygiene’ if we have a portable way to compute gensyms

DONE Use Guile-gcrypt instead of (guix gcrypt) & co.

DONE Minimal bootstrap with Mes & co. for i686/x86_64 merged (‘wip-bootstrap’)

MAYBE Use Gash instead of Bash during bootstrap

infrastructure

DONE ci.guix.gnu.org points to berlin.guixsd.org

DONE ci.guix.gnu.org is the default substitute server; hydra.gnu.org is deprecated

DONE ARM build machines (+ qemu-binfmt) added behind berlin.guixsd.org

DONE Tatiana's web UI deployed on berlin.guixsd.org

• State "DONE" from "TODO" [2018-09-02 Sun 17:12]

DONE Clément's Cuirass improvements deployed (inputs, non-blocking SQLite, etc.)

• State "DONE" from "TODO" [2018-09-02 Sun 17:12]

TODO web site available at guix.gnu.org

DNS already set up with two entries, but how to do deal with LE certs and all?

DONE Mumi web UI available at patches.guix.gnu.org and bugs.guix.gnu.org

DONE berlin.guixsd.org has big storage, uses a TTL > 60 days

TODO Nar bandwidth issues on berlin fixed (nginx misconfiguration?)

miscellaneous

DONE “GuixSD” renamed to “Guix System”?

TODO “Cuirass” renamed to “Guix CI”?

DONE Use GDM in ‘%desktop-services’ (this will fix GNOME’s screen locker)

TODO 'static-networking-service' supports IPv6

requires the use of the Netlink interface on the kernel Linux

libnl provides an API for this, with Racket bindings

or we could provide bindings for sendmsg(2) and 'struct msghdr'

short-term, we could shell out to "ip"

DONE TeXlive profile hook <https://bugs.gnu.org/27217>

We’ll need a profile hook so people have the option to directly install individual texlive packages in their profile.

TODO Replace "texlive" dependency with minimal TeXlive unions

TeXlive is rather important for lots of users but also lots of packages. Some packages (e.g. "asymptote" and "mit-scheme") depend on the full TeXlive distribution (5GB). This is way too much for many users (low disk space, low bandwidth, or simply lack of time), so we need to work out the set of strictly required TeXlive packages for each package depending on TeXlive. We need to package the missing individual TeXlive packages in those unions. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-05/msg00218.html

DONE Fix truncated/repeating utf-8 man pages <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30785>