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Re: Status of GNOME?
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zimoun |
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Re: Status of GNOME? |
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Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:32:06 +0100 |
Hi,
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 15:27, Alex via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> For quite long time (little less than year) I'm using Guix System as VM
> guest. I noticed that GNOME is still on 3.34. I assume that cause is lack of
> man power instead of technical obstacles, considering that other non-systemd
> distributions (like Gentoo for example) are on 3.40?
New version is coming soon. After the merge of core-updates-frozen. :-)
> My question is: how can I help? What is the path to become contributor? To
> ask for guidance and mentorship is probably to much to ask, but some general
> directives are more than welcome.
You can run:
guix pull --branch=core-updates-frozen
and upgrade your system. Report the failures. Note that it is
possible that substitutes are missing; maybe check using "guix
weather" the availability if you cannot or do not want to burn CPU.
:-)
Hope that helps,
simon