GNU Guix GSoC ideas

GNU Guix GSoC ideas

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Hello,

Please find below project suggestions for GNU Guix for this year’s GSoC.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

<h3 id="guix"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guix">Guix</a></h3>

<p>GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager, and associated free
software distribution, for the GNU system.  In addition to standard
package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and
roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and
garbage collection.</p>

<p><strong>Contact:</strong> bug-guix@gnu.org (to subscribe, see the
  <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix">list-info page</a>).<br/>
<strong>Mentors:</strong> <a href="mailto:ludo@gnu.org">Ludovic Court&egrave;s</a>

<h4>Supporting binary package distribution through GNUnet</h4>

<p>
GNU Guix provides a transparent binary/source deployment model.  A
server can claim: “hey, I have the binary for
<tt>/nix/store/v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs-emacs-24.3</tt>!”, where the
base32 string uniquely identifies a build process.  If you trust that
server to provide genuine binaries, then you can grab them instead of
building Emacs locally.
</p>

<p>
The “traditional model” has been to have a build farm build and serve
binary packages.  In that model, users trust the build farm to provide
authentic binaries.
</p>

<p>
The project aims to provide a <emph>practical</emph> decentralization
distribution mechanism for binary packages, using <a
href="/software/gnunet">GNUnet’s file sharing service</a>.  In that
model, users would be able to automatically share binaries they have
built locally, and to install binaries built by other users.  This is
part of a broader goal of <emph>disintermediation</emph> among users,
and between users and upstream software developers.
</p>

<p>
Problems to be solved <a
href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-03/msg00085.html">include</a>
the authentication of binary packages, user privacy, and the development
of a user interface that makes it trivial to contribute package build
results.
</p>

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Re: GNU Guix GSoC ideas

[Cyril Roelandt]

Hello,

Please find below another project suggestion for GNU Guix for this 
year's GSoC.

Thanks.
Cyril.

<h3 id="guix"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guix">Guix</a></h3>

<p>GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager, and associated free
software distribution, for the GNU system.  In addition to standard
package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and
roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and
garbage collection.</p>

<p><strong>Contact:</strong> bug-guix@gnu.org (to subscribe, see the
   <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix">list-info
page</a>).<br/>
<strong>Mentor:</strong> <a href="mailto:tipecaml@gmail.com">Cyril
Roelandt</a></p>

<h4>Packaging a modern Desktop Environment in GNU Guix</h4>

<p>
GNU Guix is currently a "userland" distribution: users can install it on
top of another distribution, but it is not bootable yet. It provides
around 400 packages, and can already be used to do some serious hacking,
but it lacks nice graphical user interfaces.
</p>

<p>
The project aims at packaging one widely used desktop environment. The
applicant can choose their favorite one, as long as it's neither too big 
(in which case it might be hard to package completely) nor too small
(ie. a simple window manager). Some possible choices could be GNOME,
GNUstep, KDE, XFCE or LXDE.
</p>

Re: GNU Guix GSoC ideas

[Ludovic Courtès]

And now a third and last one, to add below the others:

<h4>Package management from Emacs</h4>

<p>
  The goal of this project is to write a complete package management
  user interface for use in GNU&nbsp;Emacs.  The UI would provide the
  same functionality as the <tt>guix package</tt> command, but using an
  interface similar to that of <tt>package.el</tt>.
</p>

<strong>Mentor</strong>: <a href="mailto:ludo@gnu.org">Ludovic Court&egrave;s</a>

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: GNU Guix GSoC ideas

[Ling Kun]

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Please find below project suggestions for GNU Guix for this year’s GSoC.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
> <h3 id="guix"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guix">Guix</a></h3>
>
> <p>GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager, and associated free
> software distribution, for the GNU system.  In addition to standard
> package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and
> roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and
> garbage collection.</p>
>
> <p><strong>Contact:</strong> bug-guix@gnu.org (to subscribe, see the
>   <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix">list-info
> page</a>).<br/>
> <strong>Mentors:</strong> <a href="mailto:ludo@gnu.org">Ludovic
> Court&egrave;s</a>
>
> <h4>Supporting binary package distribution through GNUnet</h4>
>
> <p>
> GNU Guix provides a transparent binary/source deployment model.  A
> server can claim: “hey, I have the binary for
> <tt>/nix/store/v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs-emacs-24.3</tt>!”, where
> the
> base32 string uniquely identifies a build process.  If you trust that
> server to provide genuine binaries, then you can grab them instead of
> building Emacs locally.
> </p>
>
> <p>
> The “traditional model” has been to have a build farm build and serve
> binary packages.  In that model, users trust the build farm to provide
> authentic binaries.
> </p>
>
> <p>
> The project aims to provide a <emph>practical</emph> decentralization
> distribution mechanism for binary packages, using <a
> href="/software/gnunet">GNUnet’s file sharing service</a>.  In that
> model, users would be able to automatically share binaries they have
> built locally, and to install binaries built by other users.  This is
> part of a broader goal of <emph>disintermediation</emph> among users,
> and between users and upstream software developers.
> </p>
>
> <p>
> Problems to be solved <a
> href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-03/msg00085.html
> ">include</a>
> the authentication of binary packages, user privacy, and the development
> of a user interface that makes it trivial to contribute package build
> results.
> </p>
>



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Re: GNU Guix GSoC ideas

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> And now a third and last one, to add below the others:

I have just added the three ideas for GUIX to the page.  You are welcome
with new ones :-)

--
Giuseppe

Re: GNU Guix GSoC ideas

[Ludovic Courtès]

Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> skribis:

> I have just added the three ideas for GUIX to the page.  You are welcome
> with new ones :-)

Heh, thanks!

Ludo’.