[Nix-dev] About 14.11 release

[Shea Levy]

14.11 is due 11/31 :)

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:35:59PM +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:
> I appreciate the work being done by Domen and jumping in as release manager.
> I'd like to point out a few things however about the milestone issues.
> The release should be due for October 31th, and in my vision the date is
> near and the work put in the milestone is huge.
> Take this as a help for the release, not as a critique.
> 
> Non-urgent non-trivial (at first glance) issues being in the milestone
> that should be removed in my opinion:
> #2079 - nixos-assimilate - Turn currently running system into NixOS .
> Great work being done by aszlig, however I feel like it's a dangerous
> tool to include by default in NixOS. I'd expect more people to try it
> first as an external tool before inclusion.
> #1684 - Define a standard way/location for non-standard(eg. html)
> package documentation - Basically we've been without docs for many
> packages until now. No work has being done for this issue, I think it
> will be a huge amount of work spent that could be allocated instead to
> make packages run better.
> #739 - meta.license and meta.licenses standardisation - Same here, I
> think unless there's any work being done already, it can be delayed.
> 
> In my opinion, some other issues / pull requests are release critical:
> #4563 - Xfce mixer applet does not work - This seems like a regression
> from the previous stable release
> #4546 - NetworkManager fails to start due to dbus permission issue -
> Definitely a regression, not sure what the guy did there though
> #4300 - NixOS: XMonad requires xterm disabled / not respecting
> `desktopManager.default = "none";` - Often encountering people having
> this problem, it's unintuitive. In milestone only if it's really easy to
> fix.
> #4201 - authentication not possible after nixos-rebuild from master - We
> need to test upgrades from 14.04 to 14.11 with mutable users and
> whatnot, unless you want to be locked out from your own server.
> #4587 - Added line SCSI_SAS_ATA y on line 62 - Make nixos install on
> more devices
> 
> I haven't gone through all of the issues.
> 
> Best regards,

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