From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Lazzati Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:44:50 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87va6aep03.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAHc1-0007sr-0w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:45:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAHc0-00039B-0X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:45:28 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-x536.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::536]:46109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAHbz-000391-Qs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:45:27 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-x536.google.com with SMTP id a5-v6so2764664pgv.13 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:45:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87va6aep03.fsf@gmail.com> 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: alexvong1995@gmail.com Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:26 PM Alex Vong wrote: > > Hello, > > Welcome to guix! Thank you! > > 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'. > I'm interested in taking this as a contribution. I have just sent another reply mail telling about my bad luck with my laptop. I'm trying to fix the sound issue while reading documentation about how to package software I have used R before, so I was asking about that > > 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/