Re: “Future of Guix” panel

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

Heh. Long list.

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 12:11:15AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guix!
> 
> We’ll close FOSDEM with a discussion on the future of Guix and GuixSD:
> 
>   https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/futureofguix/
> 
> Attached is a semi-structured list of topics that came to mind.  Please
> feel free to bring your own, either at the event (this Sunday), or on
> this list, or on IRC during the event maybe?
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

> #+TITLE: Future of Guix (panel)
> #+STARTUP: content hidestars
> 
> https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/futureofguix/
> Sunday, 16:30, K.4.601
> 
> * Organization
> 
> ** sharing the work load
> 
> *** security updates
> 
> *** build farm
> 
> *** web site, posts, videos, etc.
> 
> *** handling branches: starting & merging ‘core-updates’, ‘staging’
> 
> *** release management: setting a date, choosing what goes in, publishing
> 
> *** GSoC mentoring
> 
> ** review
> 
> *** getting more reviewers
> 
> *** facilitating the process
> 
> *** encouraging newcomers
> 
> ** funding
> 
> *** development
> 
>   - how do we get core & maintenance work funded?
>   - how do we get funding for new areas (like ‘guix deploy’)?
> 
> *** infrastructure (build farm)
> 
>   - sustaining infrastructure growth and maintenance
>   - Jan. 2016 crowdfunding was enough for a start
> 
> * Publicity, outreach
> 
> ** high-performance computing (HPC)
> 
> *** competition: EasyBuild, Spack, Singularity, Shifter
> 
> *** stories: MDC, Utrecht, Brisbane
> 
> *** possible cooperation in the near future
> 
> ** reproducible science
> 
> *** how to help projects such as [[https://rescience.github.io/][ReScience]]?
> 
> *** make reproducible free software stacks the obvious choice
> 
> ** containers, deployment
> 
> *** competition: Docker, Kubernetes, NixOps
> 
> *** stories: gov.uk (Chris Baines), bayfront.guixsd.org
> 
> ** hold Guix User Gatherings (GUGs)?
> 
> * Code
> 
> ** 1.0 in 2017! (see roadmap in [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-20160818.pdf][GHM 2016 talk]])
> 
> *** ‘guix pull’ and channels
> 
> *** Git checkout authentication
> 
> *** performance & usability improvements
> 
> *** GuixSD graphical installer (John)
> 
> *** self-hosted infrastructure
> 
> **** Cuirass
> 
> **** ‘guix publish’ improvements
> 
> **** build machines running GuixSD
> 
> *** bug fixes
> 
> ** next big thing: ‘guix deploy’
> 
> ** scalability
> 
> *** better importers & updaters
> 
> *** better ‘guix lint -c cve’
> 
> ** reproducibility: reach 90% or so, and measure
> 
> ** bootstrapping
> 
> *** reduce the size of our bootstrap binaries (Bournish? Mes? …)
> 
> *** “do something” about compilers that cannot be bootstrapped


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