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+# Notes from the Guix Days plenary session
+
+- Date: Thursday, Feb. 1st, 2024 and Friday, Feb. 2nd, 2024
+- Attendees: 33 people at the events opening, including new users and Nix people
+
+## Main Track
+
+- Introduction to Goblins by Christine from Spritely Institute
+- Status of Guix by Efraim
+- Guix QA update by Chris
+
+Sessions:
+
+- [Goblins and Hoot](goblins-hoot-guix.md) (Christine)
+- [Infrastructure](infrastructure.md) (Alexis)
+- Documentation (Julien)
+- Guix Home (Gabor)
+- [Alternative Architectures](architecture-support.org) (Efraim)
+- Bootstrapping (Janneke)
+- Release (Julien)
+
+
+### Day 2
+
+Sessions:
+
+- Funding (Christine)
+- [Governance/Maintainers](governance.org) (Efraim + Chris)
+- [Patch flow](patch-flow.md) (Steve)
+- [Guix CLI improvements](cli.md) (Jonathan)
+- Profiling (Adriel)
+- Hurd (Janneke)
+- L10N (Julien)
+- [Hoot](goblins-hoot-guix.md) (Christine)
+- Newbie room (Gabor)
+- Onboarding (Gabor)
+
+
+### Ideas that didn’t make it to sessions
+
+- Shepherd
+- HPC
+
+
+## Status update (Efraim)
+
+ - last release 1 year old
+ - installer
+ - working okay
+ - does not cater to the needs of power users (e.g., btrfs on encrypted)
+ - problems when choosing EXWM
+ - allow choosing the Hurd?
+ - substitute availability is good for x86_64
+ - currently 98% or so
+ - qa.guix gives a summary
+ - 32-bit support is in a poor state
+ - idea: estimate i686 substitute usage using server logs?
+ - is ARMv7 (32-bit, armhf-linux) used at all?
+ - onboarding
+ - "not a lot of projects are doing email patches"
+ - people maintain their own stack of patches they don't submit
+ - "we need to do something on our side"
+ - teams
+ - "nice but not perfect", "mostly working"
+ - what about patches with no associated teams?
+ - Rust team is just Efraim
+ - sysadmin
+ - small bus factor
+ - Chris in charge qa.guix, data.guix, etc.
+ - berlin was building slowly early January: needed to vacuum the
+ posgresql database
+ - we're moving faster
+ - #5 on Repology
+ - we should talk more about package availability
+ - time traps
+ - "virtual build machine" service to address that
+ - could be used for 2038 bug testing
+ - RISC-V builds broke with some kernel update
+ - SWH
+
+## Guix Quality assurance update (Chris Baines)
+
+ - architecture diagram
+ - entry points: https://qa.guix.gnu.org/patches,
+ https://qa.guix.gnu.org/reproducible-builds
+ - question about “slowness” of builds
+ - could use a different prioritirization method
+ - could add more hardware
+ - https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/activity -> it’s busy :-)
+
+## Actions
+
+- TBD
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