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   Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:36:31 JST Ludovic Courtès

   “Join the Guix-Science community!”
   https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2025/01/join-the-guix-science-community/

   Where we #ReproducibleResearch and #HPC users of #Guix report on our adventure moving to #Codeberg, coming up with suitable CI/CD support, and call for like-minded #OpenScience folks to join!

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:54:41 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     I should say I’m pretty happy with the workflow we have on Codeberg and the many tiny features that overall make it easier to keep track of pull requests and ensure they reach the right people.

     It’s routine for anyone who’s been using a “modern forge” but it’s good to see concretely how it could play out for a project like Guix.

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     David Wilson (daviwil@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:13:40 JST David Wilson

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     @civodul Codeberg is great and I'm thankful for it, but it can be unreliable at times. It'd be interesting to see a project like Guix host its own Forgejo instance

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:18:03 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     • David Wilson

     @daviwil As one of the folks trying to keep Guix infra afloat, I would rather reduce its scope than increase it right now.

     But one thing that I find important is plausible self-hosting. And indeed that’s something we get with Forgejo, much less with GitLab (which is much more complex and cannot realistically be packaged in Guix).

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:21:35 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     • Cayetano Santos

     @csantosb I would say that niche scientific packages should definitely go to Guix-Science.

     Also, contributing to Guix-Science is usually deemed easier, first because it’s on a forge of the kind most people are familiar with, with a clear feedback loop, and second because it’s a small repo without the ./bootstrap && ./configure && make step.

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     Cayetano Santos (csantosb@sigmoid.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:21:37 JST Cayetano Santos

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     @civodul Great work, indeed ! Substitutes are an absolute must have when it comes to dealing with non trivial #guix packages.

     There is one question people ask to me when it comes to contributing to guix: do I have to send a patch to this channel, or to guix itself ? What the difference is exactly ? Sure, binary blobs are not allowed in guix but other than this, are there any other factors affecting this choice ? 🤔