From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Online hackathon ? Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:53:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87wqn58rku.fsf@gnu.org> References: <521D1F56.2070506@gmail.com> <87y57mwxt5.fsf@karetnikov.org> <877gf6c6k5.fsf@gnu.org> <521E44D0.4030909@gmail.com> 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]:36208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmpR-0007Wk-Mi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:59:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmpM-0005Pm-0B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:59:01 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:51582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmpL-0005Pg-Pr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:58:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <521E44D0.4030909@gmail.com> (Cyril Roelandt's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:43:28 +0200") List-Id: 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: Cyril Roelandt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Cyril Roelandt skribis: > On 08/28/2013 03:02 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> >>>> Some people at the GHM seemed to be interested in packaging stuff in >>>> Guix. Should we have a hackathon soon (1 or 2 weeks) where we could >>>> help people on IRC for a whole week-end ? Do you think many people >>>> might be interested ? >>> >>> I like the idea. I think there should be a low-hanging-fruit-list, so >>> people won=E2=80=99t lose focus. What should be packaged that=E2=80=99= s not too tricky >>> for newcomers? >> >> I think there=E2=80=99s a verrrrry large choice of things to package ;-)= , so we >> can let people choose. Then savvy people can tell them whether it=E2=80= =99s >> going to be too difficult, etc. >> >> WDYT? >> > > People at the GHM knew what they wanted to package. I know Amirouche > (who's been on #guix for a few weeks) was trying to package > skribilo. I think we should let them package what they want. Yes. (BTW, I have a stash with Skribilo...) > It'd be great to decide what __we__ should package for the next > release, though :) My opinion is that we first want packages that improve usability for the typical hacker. That=E2=80=99s what has been guiding part of my packaging activity, and now most of what I use daily comes from Guix. The second thing is GNU packages. Some of the trickier but more interesting include TeXmacs, Octave, and R, for instance. The third category is big software collections: GNOME, GNUstep, XFCE, KDE, etc. Thoughts? (I=E2=80=99ll write more about what other things I=E2=80=99d like to see in= the next release separately.) Ludo=E2=80=99.