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<civodul>good night/day!

<ggrant>libglade built.

<ggrant>Yah, first patch in awhile submitted. :^)

<ggrant>mark_weaver: o/

<ggrant>mark_weaver: I submitted my first patch in-route to mypaint today. It's taking forever to hit the mailing list though. :^P

<mark_weaver>excellent!

<mark_weaver>are you subscribed to the ML ?

<mark_weaver>if you're not subscribed, it might be held up in moderation. I don't remember the policy of guix-devel.

<ggrant>mark_weaver: Nope, was about to ask this.

<mark_weaver>that's pretty much standard policy these days, I'm afraid. too many spammers.

<ggrant>Ya know, GNU still really needs a good piece of 2d animation software.

<ggrant>mark_weaver: Which is fair, I suppose.

<zacts>hm.. I'm now back on debian Gnu/Linux.. maybe I'll contribute more to this project, near the end of this semester.

<zacts>mark_weaver: I'm still working on that guile freebsd port, but I've been busy with school

<ggrant>Is there a working Windows port for Guile yet?

<zacts>NuBSD Fire, a goal for a gnu endorsed FreeBSD dreived sitro, should have an initial iso release (w/o ports) by July 2014.

<zacts>then I will probably focus most of my time on something like guix..

<zacts>s/sitro/distro/

<ggrant>Let's start a GNU Bistro. :^)

<zacts>ggrant: I have an idea for an eventuall guix Gnu/kFreeBSD.

<mark_weaver>guile build with mingw more or less works. I'm actually working on improving it now.

<zacts>mark_weaver: what is the policy for including github/gitlab/gitorious projects in guix, (especially if they are 'developer' editions)?

<ggrant>mark_weaver: That'd be nice.

*ggrant now wonders how portable guile-2d is, on this front.

<civodul>Hello Guix!

<civodul>folks, you need to "upvote" the thing at http://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/ !

<civodul>(that's the right term, right?)

<civodul>and the one at http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/

<kindahero>done

<civodul>heh, thanks :-)

***oxford is now known as cantstanya

<civodul>two new builds machines, yay!

<davexunit>civodul: that's awesome!

<civodul>yep, we need to get'em ready now

<davexunit>are these for different architectures?

<civodul>no, x86_64

<davexunit>cool.

<civodul>i think it's a good time to switch to /gnu/store no?

<mark_weaver>yes! :)

<davexunit>what would be a reason to not switch? sounds good to me.

<civodul>cool :-)

<civodul>it's just that it entails a full rebuild

<civodul>and then once Hydra has switched, people still on /nix/store are stuck

<civodul>(for those who care)

<davexunit>better to switch sooner than later then.

<civodul>exactly

<civodul>:-)

<davexunit>and what better time than now with these some shiny new build machines?

<civodul>yes, that's the idea

<mark_weaver>presumably this means building new bootstrap-tarballs, right?

<civodul>actually no, because they are relocatable

<mark_weaver>nice!

<civodul>that's what makes it possible to use them in the test suite, for example

<dddddd`>civodul: where did you get the new build boxes?

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<civodul>ah ah! :-)

<civodul>one of the is from the GNUnet forks, the other one is from the chapters.gnu.org folks (jemarch et al.)

<civodul>*folks

<aafdsfs>x86_64?

<civodul>yes

<davexunit>what exactly do you need in order to donate a machine to the build farm?

<civodul>we need SSH access on the machine, and the offload support has to work

<civodul>is that what you were asking?

<davexunit>yeah.

<davexunit>I was thinking of acquiring a VM for this purpose.

<civodul>ah, cool

<davexunit>but if I were to do that, I would like a rough estimate of what resources it would need to be useful.

<civodul>yeah

<civodul>i think we should wait until we have more insight with these two machines

<davexunit>okay.

<davexunit>sounds good.

<davexunit>I would be happy to donate a machine if it doesn't damage my wallet too much. :)

<civodul>:-)

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