From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 12:16:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20160207121637.581ca047@debian-netbook> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpqhu0t1.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="Sig_/Gw7Z=bSkiop7_xhLsSsxz2O"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSMOf-00065c-5I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:16:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSMOb-000462-Tr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:16:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wpqhu0t1.fsf@dustycloud.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: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --Sig_/Gw7Z=bSkiop7_xhLsSsxz2O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 10:54:34 -0800 Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Maybe we should have a place to collect ideas? >=20 > Anyway, here would be my top items for GSoC: >=20 > - An installer wizard (written in Guile of course!) > - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager for > .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in Debian > and Fedora > - Perhaps some kind of non-emacs, non-cli package (and system > management?) interface. Maybe GTK based? >=20 In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that in all likelyhood I will still qualify as a student for this years GSoC. The three ideas that I had so far that are floating around in a text file a= re: - arm64 port -- This could probably be extended into getting a working syst= em into place to have a u-boot -> grub loader, and/or using kexec to get a booted system to reboot into an arm libre-kernel. (for armv7 and arm64?) - ncurses installer -- my idea was Debian's installer can be considered ugl= y, but it does have everything needed to install a system. - GaPMaCt - Guix's amazing package manager and configure tool -- Same non-emacs package & system manager as above. Maybe a backend with a GTK or ncurses frontend. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --Sig_/Gw7Z=bSkiop7_xhLsSsxz2O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWtxmFAAoJEPTB05F+rO6TlNgQAIwPRB+a4rVs0aqIKV1qXOTK DgJP3OHVq0ZR/mZQhPWRMpFPtrgsEBitMCTgGJTbXMVXmpccOS1XjJvEJF/Zj/w+ 0L9NPdjDgRXeRAyhLojqxc5lydqDZvluANa5EGIGFohs2sBAGSjo+6PclXf8hgE5 gT8qLYBsop0Aj0nADxCms3BNiwce2UbShogEODtskD3C+6x61MXzvFcMRoTXOmJq MAwtIeqjluHTg7tDUixdMfYynQ2KtXGDcooOUcHFCYpLv7ilsNpA3NkoCF6fs/S5 AtDB37z7WUpmIPSz4+ReSbevg9/d5F1SeWcsBjym/anNaeRm6zieluGLOURa5/j/ M2dZlkfOodXPW7a0MtNCOrNcg6Bq+BryhRXh0tNSKWlqplHfQm497ZWF2cT4ftqe PWJd8DfYRBci1wjGEZkYvpqePxZAOa7G16LnZ2XTBNBi/PTd8mZRdkMI2QT5jTaB GzCxA8G20PHC/iG/zO01+Hi3GGtCXdqvU5CLmKDb1e1ErUmtUAmik3h9BpEwEhmO WR/4yTa1L5HOz7n9xy0mVQ34wgK/xaPyzFU73Jg4nNLH5lx/uQ7jCqSIXr07Yrrq gIdSvhZ8QbQP/+3v+Rf9ZaDNZz5Y8IkmJzZ98PHCVDkxbIlv+9D3zqOTsxkyqMaK 2lneXbXqo7uLTmJkRWGB =CNY7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Gw7Z=bSkiop7_xhLsSsxz2O--