#+TITLE: The ways forward
#+STARTUP: hidestars

* tentative road map for 1.2.0

  [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-04/msg00400.html][Medium-term road map (Apr. 2020)]]

* What's Guix?

** dependable
** liberating
*** not just FSDG
*** also helps users master complexity
*** empower users
** hackable
*** no programming language barrier
*** no need for a PhD in category theory
** high quality
*** a curated package distribution
*** community rules and QA
*** requirements not found elsewhere: build from source, unbundle, reproducible builds, bootstrap

* the things that suck
** performance
*** `guix pull' ("Computing guix derivation")
*** substitute downloads
*** broken CI (see Mathieu's talk)
*** UI glitches
**** guix shell at last!
**** search by file name (Pierre)
*** creating union directories is slow
** easier ways to work on a channel
** package size
*** deal with locales (e.g., coreutils)
** year-old bugs :-)
* the corners we cut
** build system gexp
** daemon in Scheme
** source location maps for staged code
** shepherd on Fibers (?): socket activation, etc.
* the future
** GNU/Hurd (-> janneke)
** substitutes over P2P (-> Chris Webber)
** new package definitions: no labels in inputs fields
** POLA: `guix run', --with-pola-wrapper
** 'guix hack' to work on a package?
** transparent import of packages from third-party repos?
** modularized package collection?
*** easier to hack on them, no longer different from other channels
*** more scalable (build times)
** time travel tested, formalized?
** guix environment --fhs  (file hierarchy standard)
** guix pack --format .deb|.rpm|...
** adding the missing GNU packages to the GNU Guix collection
** scalable workflows, recruiting more contributors (-> Chris Baines)
** outreach: functional deployment for everyone, not just geeks!
*** doc, translated
*** polished UI
*** graphical installer ✓
*** graphical UI (Danny)
*** graphical system UI à la YunoHost
*** blogging, training!
** CPU and power efficiency