From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:17:08 -0800 Message-ID: <87h9hhy1ej.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpqhu0t1.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87si11r4md.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:46429) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTGat-0003L2-Hv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:17:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTGas-0000ns-J3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:17:11 -0500 In-reply-to: <87si11r4md.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> Maybe we should have a place to collect ideas? > > What about creating a page at = ? https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2016 Here you go! Just commenting on one comment: >> - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager f= or >> .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in Debi= an >> and Fedora > > That would be useful, and CheckInstall may be good enough for that. I > don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cenough=E2=80=9D for GSoC, tho= ugh. WDYT? If the student was really to package Guix for many distributions, it might be enough. Especially if that student was to explore packaging with upstream. Anyway, the payout could be *huge*. If they finish early, I'm sure we could find other things for them to do? :) - Chris