From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: sapientech@openmailbox.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GSOC 2016 Application
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:03:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9fuilz8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6e66360c0bc32ca5dc292ab38921651@openmailbox.org> (sapientech@openmailbox.org's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:06:35 -0700")
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sapientech@openmailbox.org writes:
> My name is Dylan, and I am a Swarthmore College student interested in
> working with Guix this summer! Attached is my proposal to help develop
> an installation wizard for GuixSD. Please let me know if there are any
> questions or comments.
This is a great idea! You might be interested to know that from Thomas
Ingram has made a similar proposal. My feedback to you would be similar
to the feedback I gave to him, which is here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg00903.html
> - Consider both a text-based and graphical application using
> guile-ncurses/libRUIN
While it's good to plan for both text and graphical UI, maybe it will be
more efficient to pick one to focus on, and treat the other as a stretch
goal?
> - Design for portability for use in other software distributions that
> lack a proper installer wizard
Again, this is a nice idea, but it might be more efficient to focus on
getting it to work with Guix first.
> - An emphasis on rigorous test suites, with stability prioritized over features
GuixSD is still beta software. Is it a good idea to make one of your
goals be "the installer is stable" when the system it's installing is
not stable?
> - Research installer wizards in other distributions, and work with the
> Guix community to determine a minimal yet effective installation flow
I would be happy to share with you the hacky little shell scripts I use
to do this today. They're simple automations of the manual procedure,
really, but perhaps they could be useful. I am not familiar with the
implementation details of installer wizards used by other distros, but
I've seen and used my fair share of them.
In any case, I would love to have a functioning installer for GuixSD!
You're absolutely right that it would make the system more approachable
to newcomers, too. Thank you for taking the time to work on this!
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Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-25 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 22:06 GSOC 2016 Application sapientech
2016-03-25 2:35 ` sapientech
2016-03-25 15:01 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-25 16:03 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
2016-03-26 7:08 ` sapientech
2016-03-26 11:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 20:11 ` myglc2
2016-03-26 7:21 ` sapientech
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