[Nix-dev] 16.03 release has been post-postponed (was: When will nixos-16.03 be ready?)

[Jakob Gillich]

I'd estimate around 10 years of development until all of the blockers
are implemented, so we might as well drop AMD64 and release for the
ARM128 architecture only.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> Sorry, I think that we also mentioned in the meeting that we would also
> have a working x32 ABI NixOS release. I'm afraid that your list is not
> exhaustive.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:10:10PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> > Christian Kauhaus writes:
> > 
> >  > I wonder what the timeline is for the 16.03 release. As far as I
> >  > understand it, it was supposed to happen in March, but odds are not
> >  > so good right now. Has anyone an idea about what it takes for the
> >  > release to happen?
> > 
> > I have the unpleasant duty of informing everyone that all plans to release
> > nixos-16.03 are OFF.
> > 
> > We were literally minutes away from tagging the source code and switching on
> > the nixos-16.03 channel when Domen realized that we had flat-out forgotten
> > to implement several important BLOCKERS that prevent us from releasing the
> > new version right now. So we had an on-line meeting, discussed our options,
> > and concluded to POSTPONE any new NixOS releases until the following issues
> > are resolved:
> > 
> >  - Re-designed UI for Nix command-line tools
> >  - Deterministic Reproducible Builds (#2281)
> >  - Security Hardening (#7220)
> >  - Fast Delivery of Security Updates (#10851)
> >  - Recursive Nix
> >  - Declarative User Environments a.k.a. User-space NixOS (#9250)
> >  - Hydra NG (#12203)
> >  - Lazier mkDerivation function (#11094)
> >  - Consistent Support for Multiple Outputs (#7701)
> > 
> > Once ALL these issues are implemented and tested, we'll start over with a
> > new release cycle.
> > 
> > Thank you for your patience and understanding,
> > Peter
> > 
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