An update of the port of Shepherd to Spritely Goblins!

[cwebber@social.coop]

An update of the port of Shepherd to Spritely Goblins! https://spritely.institute/news/shepherd-goblins-update.html

Shepherd on Goblins RUNS! There's still some things to clean up but Juli Sims has been leading the effort with a lot of work also by David Thompson. There's examples of Goblins + Shepherd running a userspace Shepherd daemon... and even a demo of Goblins + Shepherd allowing for fleet orchestration!

[cwebber@social.coop]

It's so cool to see this hit this point! In 2024 at FOSDEM I gave a pitch: Spritely, Guile, and Guix, a unified vision for user security https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2331-spritely-guile-guix-a-unified-vision-for-user-security/

Juli Sims began implementing Shepherd + Goblins https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-nlnet-grants-december-2023.html

Juli gave an update earler this year at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5315-shepherd-with-spritely-goblins-for-secure-system-layer-collaboration/

Which brings us back to this update today! https://spritely.institute/news/shepherd-goblins-update.html

[civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@cwebber Woow, quite a milestone; congrats to Juli and to @dthompson!! (Really, party time when the test suite passes 100%. :-))

I enjoyed the article too, both as a developer of the existing bespoke actors and as a potential user of the nifty features that this would support; the distributed Shepherd example is enticing!

[cwebber@social.coop]

@civodul @dthompson Things are happening so fast that the test suite just went from 4 failing tests to 1 thanks to new fixes by juli! https://codeberg.org/spritely/shepherd/pulls/68

Incredible work

[dthompson@toot.cat]

@cwebber @civodul 1 failure for juli locally, but 5 in CI. still some strange things going on that we need to debug. but still, it's good progress! we're close.