From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:25:48 +0800 Message-ID: <87va6aep03.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gA0Sb-0004cL-6X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:26:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gA0SX-0003H8-0b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:26:37 -0400 Received: from mail-pf1-x42a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::42a]:36203) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gA0ST-0003BM-N0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:26:31 -0400 Received: by mail-pf1-x42a.google.com with SMTP id l81-v6so1570122pfg.3 for ; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:26:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Laura Lazzati's message of "Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:08:44 -0300") 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: Laura Lazzati Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Hello, Welcome to guix! Laura Lazzati writes: > Hi everyone! > > I don't know if is it OK to be telling you what I am/ I've been doing > these days, I kind of like doing so to have feedback, and also to let > you know > > I installed guix on a VM with an Ubuntu distro and it worked fine - i > ran some basic commands. > I am trying to install GuixSD over that VM too and on bare metal - > don't know if this two steps are necessary, but looking at the tasks > for Outreachy one items says that I will be doing documentation for > it. > I also read the tutorial in http://guix-hpc-bordeaux.inria.fr, the > documentation about defining packages - I am in process of studying > how to do so. And I have the following questions: > 1) should I write, at least for myself, the problems I've been > encountering in the whole process of doing everything? I think it is a good idea. Usually after using a program for some time, I get used the program behaviour and forget how it was like when I just get started. It is always good to have newcomers to share the difficulties they encountered! > 2) When a suggestion for a contribution is writing an R package, you > mean the R programming language? > Yes, I think so. A capitalized 'R' usually means the 'R programming language' in my dictionary. You can find all the R package definitions / recipes in 'gnu/package/statistics.scm'. > Regards! There're also some talks about guix on the web[0][1]. You can watch them if you are interested. Cheers, Alex [0]: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/practical-verifiable-software-freedom-with-guixsd/ [1]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/usingguix/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQSof2ZdXkE0FM5aU4XzrkvbI+zaGwUCW70q7AAKCRDzrkvbI+za G1KsAP9+yNdjWvCt0i+RXrAqXoEUz6POkNvmfqRKENdHIYex9QEAiCmZTzDUAFhb oD3fihvIRPM8nr1gNS5cQVc8rixTjg8= =O/XQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--