From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GSoC ideas
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 07:12:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160210061254.GB3199@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9hhy1ej.fsf@dustycloud.org>
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:17:08PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> >> - 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
> >
> > That would be useful, and CheckInstall may be good enough for that. I
> > don’t think it’s “enough” for GSoC, though. WDYT?
>
> If the student was really to package Guix for many distributions, it
> might be enough. Especially if that student was to explore packaging
> with upstream. Anyway, the payout could be *huge*.
One thing to keep in mind is that GSoC is about programming. So, we
have to be clear about that in the proposal.
> If they finish early, I'm sure we could find other things for them to
> do? :)
Better to put a secondary job in - such as improving the web-ui or
creating a tool for importing deb packages, or something. Students
will come if they think the job challenging/interesting enough.
Pj.
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-06 11:38 GSoC ideas Pjotr Prins
2016-02-06 12:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 18:54 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-07 10:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-09 20:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 20:32 ` myglc2
2016-02-08 10:45 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-08 11:37 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-08 17:24 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 18:45 ` Thompson, David
2016-02-08 19:47 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 20:43 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-09 10:36 ` Installing Guix on foreign distros Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-10 8:53 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-10 9:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-10 12:44 ` Jookia
2016-02-11 5:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-11 10:54 ` Bootstrapping Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-23 23:00 ` GSoC ideas Diane Trout
2016-02-23 23:52 ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-24 0:02 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-24 9:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-24 9:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-24 9:36 ` Jookia
2016-02-25 18:15 ` Bootstrap binaries Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-25 20:26 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-26 23:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 10:51 ` Jookia
2016-02-28 15:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 15:10 ` Jookia
2016-02-29 5:22 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-29 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-24 0:32 ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Diane Trout
2016-02-24 7:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-24 17:20 ` Thompson, David
2016-02-24 19:36 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 10:30 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-26 1:27 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-24 19:14 ` GSoC ideas Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:24 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:56 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 18:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-26 1:28 ` Diane Trout
2016-03-25 20:52 ` myglc2
2016-02-09 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 22:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-10 6:12 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2016-02-11 2:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-11 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-11 17:59 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-21 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 19:07 ` myglc2
2016-02-11 11:46 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-02-11 17:32 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-12 11:48 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-02-11 17:36 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-28 22:12 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-02-28 23:33 ` Richard Braun
2016-03-02 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 10:12 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-02 21:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 22:06 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-21 12:09 ` [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU Hurd draft Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-22 0:49 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-23 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 16:55 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 11:18 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 11:38 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 12:36 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 12:49 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-24 13:55 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 14:30 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-04 15:09 ` GSoC ideas Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-05 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 23:53 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-02-07 5:51 ` Pjotr Prins
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