From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Roelandt Subject: Re: GSoC? Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:04:43 +0100 Message-ID: <5126D23B.8080601@gmail.com> References: <87r4kalm4g.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8iAW-0002KV-HM for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:15:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8iAP-00017T-9o for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:15:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r4kalm4g.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org On 02/20/2013 10:18 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Should we submit a project for GSoC? There’s some info regarding GNU’s > participation at > . > (I have zero experience with GSoC, though.) > I don't have any experience with GSoC either, but I'm wondering whether Google will allow us to submit a list of projects since Guix is a really young project. Does every project have to apply on its own, or can GNU apply ? > One project that would be suitable, because it’s orthogonal and > challenging yet doable, is some sort of a Hydra rewrite in Guile. How hard is it to port Guix to other architectures ? Could this be a GSoC project ? How about packaging a huge piece of software (I'm thinking about GNOME/KDE, for instance) ? Cyril.