Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[Ludovic Courtès]

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The GNU Guix¹ project is organizing a hackathon on September 27th and
28th, 2014.  The hackathon will take place primarily on-line, on the
#guix channel on Freenode.  We have started collecting a list of hacking
ideas².  Feel free to stop by on guix-devel@gnu.org and make more
suggestions!

The hackathon is accessible to anyone with experience in GNU/Linux
packaging or systems hacking.  Scheme programmers will find additional
things to work on in the tool set.  We will also be welcoming newcomers
and helping them get started.

We would love to have the valuable feedback of GNU maintainers and
hackers, and patches to add their GNU package, for those still missing.

Ludo’.

¹ http://gnu.org/s/guix
² http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Hackathon-09-2014

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Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[John Sullivan]

Cool, we'd be happy to promote this in http://fsf.org/events if you can
email the necessary information (look at any individual event listing
there for an example) to info@fsf.org saying that I suggested it.

-john

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Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Sullivan <johns@fsf.org> skribis:

> Cool, we'd be happy to promote this in http://fsf.org/events if you can
> email the necessary information (look at any individual event listing
> there for an example) to info@fsf.org saying that I suggested it.

Will do, thanks for helping.

Ludo’.

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[Ludovic Courtès]

The hackathon is tomorrow!  Make sure to look at
<http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Hackathon-09-2014>, edit it,
etc.  I plan to be on #guix around 8AM UTC (10AM CEST), see you there!

Ludo’.

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi Ludo,

If we are not to many, maybe we could monitor your hacking through a
shared Google hangout screen? It would be quite helpful to me to see
what you are doing. I have too many things I wish to achieve, but if I
could get comfortable with the development environment I would
consider that a great win.

Pj.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 06:00:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The hackathon is tomorrow!  Make sure to look at
> <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Hackathon-09-2014>, edit it,
> etc.  I plan to be on #guix around 8AM UTC (10AM CEST), see you there!
> 
> Ludo???.
> 

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[Andreas Enge]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> If we are not to many, maybe we could monitor your hacking through a
> shared Google hangout screen? It would be quite helpful to me to see
> what you are doing. I have too many things I wish to achieve, but if I
> could get comfortable with the development environment I would
> consider that a great win.

I am not quite sure what google hangout is, but it sounds a lot like a
proprietary software as a service. So I do not think that would be in line
with the gnu philosophy...

Andreas

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[Pjotr Prins]

If there is an alternative I am all ears.

Pj.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:33:47PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > If we are not to many, maybe we could monitor your hacking through a
> > shared Google hangout screen? It would be quite helpful to me to see
> > what you are doing. I have too many things I wish to achieve, but if I
> > could get comfortable with the development environment I would
> > consider that a great win.
> 
> I am not quite sure what google hangout is, but it sounds a lot like a
> proprietary software as a service. So I do not think that would be in line
> with the gnu philosophy...
> 
> Andreas
> 

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

[Jason Self]

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Andreas Enge said:

> I am not quite sure what google hangout is, but it sounds a lot like
> a proprietary software as a service. So I do not think that would be
> in line with the gnu philosophy...

You got it right. Other options are available for screen sharing that
are free software. There are also lots of audio things for VoIP.
Mumble [0] is one such thing. It's free, works very well, and uses the
unencumbered Opus audio codec - the successor to Vorbis. :)

[0] http://mumble.info

Thanks for the hack!

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Thanks for everyone who participated in the hackathon this week-end!

It’s been pleasant and motivating to see newcomers on #guix, and to see
all the hacks: KDE and Hurd stuff, Ruby support, assorted package bug
fixes, the PyPi importer, linters, Emacs UI improvements, etc.

Some of the things worked on during the week-end haven’t landed yet, but
here are the details:

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$ git log b5c5d763ca872fc3a3a500af9230ce2ac2def5c0..master | grep ^commit | wc -l
31
$ git log b5c5d763ca872fc3a3a500af9230ce2ac2def5c0..master | grep ^Author | sort -u | wc -l
10
$ git log b5c5d763ca872fc3a3a500af9230ce2ac2def5c0..master | grep ^Author | sort -u 
Author: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Author: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Author: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Author: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
Author: Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>
Author: Ian Denhardt <ian@zenhack.net>
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Author: Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com>
Author: Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lirzin@openmailbox.org>
Author: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public01@thebird.nl>
$ git log --oneline b5c5d763ca872fc3a3a500af9230ce2ac2def5c0..master 
335bc68 gnu: duplicity: Fix and disable some tests.
182d631 gnu: Add dionysus.
acf735f gnu: Add ruby-i18n.
c08f981 build: Add ruby build system.
6ef8c59 gnu: Add ruby.
3472bb2 emacs: Use package/output type variables where needed.
2e26986 emacs: Support font-locking.
ce8b295 emacs: Fix errors in receiving information.
79f5dd5 doc: Use 'define-public' in example package recipe.
29a61bd gnu: hurd-headers: Use --build instead of --host.
47e225c gnu: qt-4: Explicitly link with icu.
fcb0109 gnu: Add Nix.
d22d72f gnu: Add perl-www-curl.
274da61 gnu: Add perl-dbi and perl-dbd-sqlite.
a0efb39 gnu: mit-scheme: Rename top-level helper.
319e2d1 gnu: Add graphite2.
68dddca gnu: mit-scheme: Delete more dangling symlinks for non-x86 systems.
ecb26c1 gnu: mit-scheme: Fix source file name for mips64el.
dc47939 gnu: phonon: Update to 4.8.0.
a9638ac build: Don't install elisp files when Emacs is unavailable.
596fcbf build: Don't generate Emacs autoloads when Emacs is unavailable.
6c4a288 gnu: mit-scheme: Update to 9.2.
17b9d16 gnu: libxscrnsaver: Propagate input scrnsaverproto.
38877bf gnu: help2man: Update to 1.46.3.
237c048 gnu: gcl: Update to 2.6.11.
483ca9d gnu: parallel: Update to 20140922.
5520c94 gnu: libidn: Update to 1.29.
53f896f gnu: rcs: Update to 5.9.3.
f36afe4 gnu: maxima: Install .el files in the right place, and help find Gnuplot.
dd0b0e6 gnu: ucommon: Update to 6.1.11.
05681d7 gnu: libassuan: Update to 2.1.2.
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Happy hacking!  :-)

Ludo’.

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