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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GSoC?
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:28:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw0ojud0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5126D23B.8080601@gmail.com> (Cyril Roelandt's message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:04:43 +0100")

Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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 ?

GNU is applying as an organization, so this would be under GNU’s umbrella.

>> 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 ?

Until we have cross-compilation it’s tedious.  But that’s not
sufficiently motivating or ambitious for GSoC, IMO.

> Could this be a GSoC project ? How about packaging a huge piece of
> software (I'm thinking about GNOME/KDE, for instance) ?

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-22 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-20 21:18 GSoC? Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-22  2:04 ` GSoC? Cyril Roelandt
2013-02-22 14:28   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-02-22 16:57     ` GSoC? Andreas Enge
2013-02-22 17:46       ` GSoC? Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-07 18:56 ` GSoC? Ludovic Courtès

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