[Nix-dev] About 14.11 release

[Domen Kožar]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I appreciate the work being done by Domen and jumping in as release
> manager.
>

thanks!


> 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'm fine if you tag those as part of 14.11 release. I'll mark critical bugs
with "blocker" label. It's fine if we don't succeed with all non-blocker
tasks.

Domen
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