* doc/contributing.texi (The Perfect Setup): Use HTTPS for ParEdit wiki page.
* gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm (emacs-wget, emacs-iedit)[home-page]: Use HTTPS.
(emacs-transpose-frame)[source]: Likewise.

* doc/contributing.texi (Commit Access): Draft a cooptation policy.

* doc/contributing.texi (Commit Access): Add note about patch review.

* HACKING (Commit Access): Remove.
(Contributing): Update URL of the manual.
* doc/contributing.texi (Commit Access): New section.
(Submitting Patches): Add cross reference.

* doc/contributing.texi (Tracking Bugs and Patches): New section.
(Submitting Patches): Refer to it.
* doc/guix.texi: Update copyright line.
* HACKING (Using emacs-debbugs): Remove.

* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Add instructions to run
'git verify-commit' and 'make authenticate'.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Remove example.
Add link to "Building from Git" section.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Mention the dummy guix pull
  command in the check list.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Mention rebuild command in the
  check list.

* README (Installing Guix from Guix): Mention value /var to localstatedir option.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Likewise.
* doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

This is a followup to f8c143a7, which
allows syntax highlighting of @lisp snippets in the HTML output.

* doc/guix.texi, doc/contributing.texi: Use @lisp instead of @example
for all the Scheme snippets.

* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git, Running Guix Before It Is
Installed): Make instructions using Guix come first and clarify which code is
an instruction and which is merely an example.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

* doc/contributing.texi (git send-email): Add install instructions.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

* doc/contributing.texi (Packaging Guidelines, Submitting Patches):
Replace hydra URL with @value{SUBSTITUTE-SERVER}.
* doc/guix.texi (Official Substitute Server): Remove ‘hydra’ @cindex.
(Substitute Server Authorization): Remove note about hydra.gnu.org.pub.

* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Add --pure to "guix environment"
  invocations

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Remove powerpc-linux
examples.
* doc/guix.texi (Virtualization Services): Replace powerpc-linux example
with mips64el-linux.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Document how to enable qemu
binfmt service and how to use it.

Co-authored-by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>

* doc/contributing.texi (The Perfect Setup): Show "guix package -i"
command line.

* doc/guix.texi (Packaging Guidelines): Move to...
* doc/contributing.texi (Packaging Guidelines): ... here.  Turn into a
section.  Adjust references to "Contributing".

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Replace @command by @code for
  packages.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Merge "discourage use of
  texlive" with existing paragraph on "guix size".

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Discourage the use of texlive as
  input.

* Makefile.am (assert-binaries-available): Don't mention hydra.gnu.org
in comment.
* build-aux/check-available-binaries.scm: Likewise.
* build-aux/check-final-inputs-self-contained.scm: Likewise.
* doc/guix.texi (SUBSTITUTE-SERVER): New variable.
Use it throughout instead of "mirror.hydra.gnu.org".
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Likewise.
* gnu/services/base.scm (hydra-key-authorization)
(guix-activation): Remove mentions of "hydra.gnu.org" in comments and
messages.
* gnu/system/install.scm (%installation-services): Likewise.
* guix/scripts/size.scm (guix-size): Likewise.

Suggested by swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Mention
that ./pre-inst-env is generated.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): URL recommendations.

* etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-use-https-home-page: New file.
* doc/contributing.texi (The Perfect Setup): Document new snippet.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Add a
note about having the dependencies available.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Provide a link to Hydra.  Add
section about freezing branches.

* guix/scripts/pull.scm (%pull-version): New variable.
(build-from-source): Pass #:pull-version to BUILD.
(whole-package-for-legacy, derivation->manifest-entry): New procedure.
(build-and-install): Rewrite in terms of 'build-and-use-profile'.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (maybe-suggest-running-guix-pull)[latest]:
Switch to "/current".
* scripts/guix.in (augment-load-paths!): Remove use of
~/.config/guix/latest.
* build-aux/compile-as-derivation.scm: Replace "/guix/latest/" with
"/current/share/guile/site/X.Y"
* guix/scripts.scm (warn-about-old-distro)[age]: Check "/current"
instead of "/latest".
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull): Document it.
* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Remove
footnote about abusing ~/.config/guix/latest.

* doc/contributing.texi (Formatting Code): Add a paragraph about Vim.

Suggested by Martin H. <maze@strahlungsfrei.de>.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Suggest
'sudo -E'.

* etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-cvs-reference,
etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-git-reference,
etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-hg-reference,
etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-origin,
etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-package,
etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-svn-reference,
etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-add-package,
etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-update-package: New files.
* doc/contributing.texi (The Perfect Setup): Document snippets.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Remind contributors to verify
cryptographic signatures at the very beginning.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Add a note about closing bug
threads by mailing to NNN-done@debbugs.gnu.org.

Suggested-by: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>

Searching for `git send-email' took you to the end of `Submitting Patches'
section which said

   You may use your email client or the ‘git send-email’ command.

without further warning or remark.

* doc/contributing.texi (Sending a Patch Series): Move information about
debbugs bug 15361 to subsection.  Add git-send-email index entries.
(Submitting Patches): Reference it.

This change might not correct, so we revert it for now:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-08/msg00057.html

This reverts commit 6a436433.

Suggested by Martin H. <maze@strahlungsfrei.de>.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Suggest
'sudo -E'.

Suggested by Joshua Branson <jbranso91@gmail.com>.

* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Add "git clone" command.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Remind contributors to verify
cryptographic signatures.

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Document the branching
scheme.