Quality Assurance for 20,000+ packages in GNU Guix
10-27, 14:10–14:35 (Europe/Berlin), Main stage

A deep dive in to GNU Guix and new tooling to help maintain and improve the quality of Guix packages, while at the same time increasing the number available.


This talk will introduce GNU Guix, a general purpose free software package manager and distribution of the GNU system. While Quality Assurance and Continuous Integration are established terms when it comes to software, their meaning when applied to package collections will be discussed. This talk will also cover specific aspects of package Quality Assurance like architecture support and reproducible builds.

Software developer interested in package managers. Previously interested in Debian/Apt but using and contributing to GNU Guix for the last 7 years.