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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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