From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: GSoC ideas Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 12:38:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS1Ch-0004xe-Dl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 06:39:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS1Cc-0005dB-5E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 06:39:03 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:34034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS1Cb-0005bx-VN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 06:38:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org I have posted a GNU Guix project idea to SciRuby Foundation: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sciruby-dev/CZt75MuUxhg Basically a student can work on - Add JRuby support to Guix - Add rbx support to Guix - Add all testing frameworks to Guix (e.g. cucumber) - Add all web development frameworks to Guix (e.g. RoR) - Add Sciruby and related modules to Guix - Provide support to Travis-CI (probably through Docker) - Provide general Docker support - Integrate with IRuby notebook and nyaplot Guix has support for containers built-in, so we can even live without Docker. If you are interested, sign up with the SciRuby mailing list (sorry they use Google groups). Also I encourage other packagers to post project ideas to relevant organisations (R, SciPy anyone?). Pj.