Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2018 anyone?

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Gábor Boskovits transcribed 6.9K bytes:
> I've checked last the list from last year.
> 
> It seems to me that the RISCV port might be more important than ever in the
> face of Spectre.

It doesn't really fix that and suffer from it aswell, but a port to it
would be great for the other obvious reasons.

> The shepherd systemd semantics would be also nice to have.
> I consider the syntax less important.
> It would be also nice to create a service or set of services to make
> administration experience
> similar to a systemd sytem. For example the functionality of journalctl
> would be nice to have.

That is one goal that can be defined 'log view' and discussed.
The rest above is not very clear, lots of guessing.

> Even a howto on configuring guixds to have the equivalent services of
> systemd would
> benefit adoptation, and it could point to functionality missing in our
> system compared to
> systemd.

I don't think we need everything systemd has, or do we?
What are you personally or work related missing, besides the obvious amount of services?

I myself was missing an easy, less scheme focused way to create operating
systems, so I'm working on that. To get to why I mention this: I thought it
was too obvious, but most of the time the things that are too obvious
are not being worked on because they are too obvious.

I would very much like to have an build log reader+browser as mentioned here
in the past. Today I've pointed someone to /var/log/guix/drvs/ and just gave
the note to use `find -name '*thingtosearchfor*'` and copy it to $home,
extract and view it.

> 
> 2018-01-11 21:42 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
> 
> > Hello Guix!
> >
> > It’s time to prepare for GSoC again!
> >
> > We need to collect ideas, presumably based on
> > <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2017>, in a new
> > “GSoC-2018” page on that wiki.
> >
> > Let’s add new ideas to
> > <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2018>!
> >
> > Does someone want to take care of coordinating with Giuseppe Scrivano
> > and others at summer-of-code@gnu.org?  (Essentially sending them the URL
> > of the idea list and monitoring the list.)
> >
> > Ludo’.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Továbított levél ----------
> > From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
> > To: GNU Summer Of Code <summer-of-code@gnu.org>
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:06:53 +0100
> > Subject: [IMPORTANT] Ideas for Summer of Code 2018
> > Hi!
> >
> > Google is accepting applications for the next Summer of Code and as
> > usual we are going to apply for it. José, Darshit and myself are going
> > to manage the presence of GNU.
> >
> > We should start thinking about a list of ideas for the next Summer of
> > Code and potential mentors.
> >
> > This is the list of ideas we had last year:
> >
> >   http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2017.html
> >
> > Is there anything left undone that can be reused this year?
> >
> > Please start sending ideas to add to the page and link them to the
> > potential mentors that can help with it.
> >
> > Please send the html snippet for the ideas page, something like:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------------
> > <h3 id="foo"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/foo";>GNU FOO</a></h3>
> >
> > <p>GNU FOO maintains their list of ideas for GSOC in an external
> >   webpage: <a
> > href="http://foo.org/wanted.html";>http://foo.org/wanted.html</a>.
> > </p>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------------
> >
> > so that it can be embedded in the page as it is.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Giuseppe
> >
> >
> >

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