From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Call for project proposals: Guix and Outreachy Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:58:28 +0100 Message-ID: <871shxunnf.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87fu6y27re.fsf@elephly.net> <87zi4lg4ep.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejMV6-00027q-BA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:58:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejMV2-0002ji-FL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:58:48 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejMV2-0002jP-5d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:58:44 -0500 In-reply-to: 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" To: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits Cc: Guix-devel Hi G=C3=A1bor, thanks for your ideas. > 1. port guix to RISCV - I currently feel I could not mentor this > though. I have a feeling that this may not be suitable for a three-month internship because we don=E2=80=99t even have the RISC-V toolchain yet. Building these things takes a long time, so it can be quite discouraging for a new contributor to work on this. > 2. write a JVM inmplementation in guile to stabilize our java > bootstrap path This is quite a lot of work and not really suited for new contributors. I like the idea, though, and think that eventually some of us should give it a try. > 3. rewrite more things currently provided by bootstrap binaries in > guile to reduce our bootsrap binary base. This seems good, as it consists of many independent sub-projects. On the other hand: we already have a couple of implementations that are just not used in Guix at this point. For example, there are a couple of Guile implementations of tar out there (I remember Mark H Weaver posted one some years ago), and there=E2=80=99s even a Bash interpreter out there (written by Rutger). > 9. get guix publish to work on some solution, that allows us to share > pre-built packages outside our local network - I have a feeling that this > could speed up development on core-updates and feature branches. Do you mean publishing to GNUnet? > 10. provide user interface to our build farm where we could request > building a specific package. A user interface to the build farm would generally be useful. I don=E2=80= =99t see how it would keep someone busy for three months, but I think this proposal is worth fleshing out. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net