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<zimoun>hi!

<zimoun>rekado: is good for you? https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/website/-/blob/master/drafts/activity-report-2022.md?plain=1#L108-137

<zimoun>PurpleSym: is it good for you? https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/website/-/blob/master/drafts/activity-report-2022.md?plain=1#L108-137

<zimoun>civodul: I do not know about the missing TODO https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/website/-/blob/master/drafts/activity-report-2022.md?plain=1#L108-137

<zimoun>drop them?

<zimoun>another TODO: PhD theses (redundant with section "Reproductible Research in Practice"?)

<PurpleSym>zimoun: 146: This *is* where; 147: It extend*s*

<PurpleSym>I would also move (usually undeclared in CRAN itself) after dependencies.

<PurpleSym>The last sentence might work better as Any improvement to the already very good Guix CRAN importer, like enhanced auto-detection of these missing dependencies, also improves the channel’s quality.

<PurpleSym>As for package highlights, maybe mention RStudio Server in guix-science got upgraded to 2021.09.3+396 (in 2022).

<zimoun>PurpleSym, done. Thanks.

<civodul>just pushed a paragraph on guix-science

<zimoun>civodul: “Guix-HPC Activity Report“ or just “Guix-HPC activity report”?

<civodul>zimoun: capitalized

<civodul>(in general, but could depend on context)

<civodul>zimoun: want to do the TODO under "Packages"? :-)

<civodul>i'll take a look at the conclusion

<zimoun>civodul: Well, I do not know. I can try a paragraph about Julia and other various updates.

<civodul>awesome, that's a good start

<civodul>a couple of lines will be enough

<zimoun>civodul: pushed minor tweaks.

<civodul>tx!

<zimoun>civodul: you are mentioning relocatable pack and the fakechroot blog post from 2020. Is it too many links to also mention https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/10/when-docker-images-become-fixed-point/ in the paragraph right before about Docker pack?

<zimoun>civodul: “Its first lines of code were written in April 2022”, typo right? s/2022/2012 ?

<civodul>oh right

<civodul>please fix! :-)

<civodul>i've just pushed the "Perspectives" section

<civodul>it's a bit lyrical and all; i'd appreciate proof-reading!

<civodul> https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/website/-/blob/master/drafts/activity-report-2022.md

<zimoun>I like this “lyrical” vision.

<civodul>zimoun: re fakechroot, i wonder; maybe we should just remove the paragraph that starts with "GNU Guix also supports"?

<civodul>it doesn't bring anything new actually

<civodul>WDYT?

<civodul>not even a paragraph, a sentence

<civodul>i mean "We use relocatable packs for X and Y" would have been nice, but here it just says "Hey there's also relocatable packs"

<zimoun>my story about relocatable is still failing for deploying on Univ. Paris Cité cluster. So yeah, maybe it could be removed.

<zimoun>But the mention of potentially reproducible Docker pack still holds. ;-)

<zimoun>civodul: still one FIXME about Personnel.

<zimoun>I am fixing it then done.

<civodul>alright

<civodul>after lunch i'll tweak the PDF rendering and we should be done

<zimoun>civodul: just the DRAFT on the top and ready for publishing?

<civodul>oh right, we need to remove it :-)

<civodul>but like i said, PDF needs a bit more love

<zimoun>right :-) I will try to proofread the PDF after lunch… but you know, French lunch break can be extended by nap. ;-)

<civodul>ACTION looks at https://hpc.guix.info/browse

<civodul>er, https://riscv.org/about/risc-v-branding-guidelines/

<civodul>looks like we can stick a RISC-V logo in there without risk

<zimoun>I’m back

<zimoun>civodul: you mean without RISC ;-)

<civodul>:-)

<zimoun>there is a script somewhere for producing the PDF?

<civodul>doc/build.scm

<civodul>now fighting with pdfbook2

<zimoun>thanks

<civodul>Getting bounds... b'\nkpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdftex.fmt\nmktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):\nmktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:\nmktexfmt: /tmp/guix-build-activity-report-2022.drv-0/.texlive2021/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf\nmktexfmt [INFO]: writing formats under

<civodul>/tmp/guix-build-activity-report-2022.drv-0/.texlive2021/texmf-var/web2c\nmktexfmt [INFO]: Did not find entry for byfmt=pdftex skipped\nmktexfmt [INFO]: total formats: 0\nmktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0\n!!! Error: pdfTeX run failed with value 1!\n'

<civodul>uh

<civodul>"I can't find the format file `pdftex.fmt'!\n"

<civodul>what's that

<zimoun>ACTION is downloading many substitutes

<zimoun>ACTION is applying (too!) many grafts

<zimoun>using Guix b8f6ead, “guix build -f build.scm” passes.

<zimoun>civodul, speaking about typo, the space between letters is sometimes really tiny. For example, p.4 p.6

<zimoun>Some subtitles are alone bottom page as “Ensuring Source Code Availability” p.9 instead of being next page

<civodul>i know

<civodul>looking into it

<zimoun>I do not know how I can help here. )-:

<civodul>are you able to create the booklet with pdfbook?

<zimoun>pdfbook? Something different from “guix build -f doc/build.scm”?

<civodul>yes

<zimoun>I do not know if it makes sense; pdfbook $(guix build -f doc/build.scm)/activity-report-2022.pdf returns OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link: '.crop-tmp-book.pdf' -> '/gnu/store/2irjb1nsad90blx4ag39cficn9dsayn6-activity-report-2022/activity-report-2022-book.pdf'

<civodul>yeah, i've seen that one before

<civodul>or is there another tool?

<civodul>almost done with the booklet

<civodul>printing for quick review

<zimoun>cool!

<civodul>done

<civodul> https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2023/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2022/ !!

<zimoun>\o/

<civodul>zimoun: can you email calcul@, recherche-reproductible@, devlog@, and similar French mailing lists?

<civodul>before everyone leaves for the week-end :-)

<zimoun>I can do it but only later today – now I must go to debug Guix colleague stuff – I hope to be back before everyone leaves for the week-end. :-)

<civodul>uh

<civodul> https://reproducible-research.inria.fr/t/guix-hpc-annual-report-published/298

<zimoun>civodul: I am back. I am going to send an email to French mailing list if it is not done yet?

<rekado>zimoun: I can only review anything in a few hours

<rekado>is there still time or are you all in submit mode?

<rekado>oh, already published

<rekado>thanks, everyone!

<civodul>thank you! :-)

<civodul>we ended up rushing as always, but hey, we're done

<rekado>sorry for my poor timing

<civodul>np!

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