From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0@crash.cx Subject: Re: RISC-V port for GSoC? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:42:02 +0000 Message-ID: <871shvo85h.fsf@abyayala.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87bmh4qrf5.fsf@abyayala.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87bmh3kbd9.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1vqv23v.fsf@abyayala.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87lgg3vb1y.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39682) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnOz-0006ht-4P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:42:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnOv-0002Ae-7U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:42:17 -0500 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:40626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnOu-00029v-SY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:42:13 -0500 Received: from [10.9.9.211] (helo=mailfront11.runbox.com) by mailtransmit02.runbox with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ejnOs-0001UW-1j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:42:10 +0100 Received: from dslb-088-078-026-213.088.078.pools.vodafone-ip.de ([88.78.26.213] helo=localhost) by mailfront11.runbox.com with esmtpsa (uid:892961 ) (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) id 1ejnOg-0004WF-7I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:41:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87lgg3vb1y.fsf_-_@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= =?utf-8?Q?=22's?= message of "Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:57:29 +0100") 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: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, 08 Feb 2018, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hello ng0, > > ng0@n0.is skribis: > >> On second thoughts I think it's okay to have all of this in >> public, there are no stupid questions. > > In general it’s not OK to quote private messages on a public list > without the author’s consent. > > No big deal in this case, but please keep that in mind in the future. Okay, I'm sorry. Next time I do what I also do in this case, summarizing without mentioning authors, or asking first. My bad. >> On Mon, 05 Feb 2018, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: >>> Heya, >>> >>> ng0@n0.is skribis: >>> >>>> Sorry for the offlist message, but I thought since you list >>>> yourself as possible mentor for the item I'd ask. >>> >>> What? I didn’t add myself there I think, we should find out where that >>> comes from. :-) >> >> So.. who added Ludovic to the RISC-V item? And if not Ludovic, >> who'd be a good mentor for this item (and has time to spend on >> it)? Manolis has worked on porting to a different kernel, Efraim >> has worked on porting to another architecture. > > To give some context, the issue is about the RISC-V port item at > . > > I’m happy to help with Guix porting insight, but apart from that I’m not > the most qualified person and I’d rather have someone else mentor it, if > someone were to take this project. Any takers? > > Actually I’m unsure how good of a project it is for GSoC. GSoC is about > development, but this one is not so much development, as Ricardo wrote > in the context of Outreachy. One could argue that this is development too, but little code would be produced and it is more about getting code to run. In my view it's development aswell, but I think we need something to show Google in the end, and "Look 'ma, I made bootstrap binaries!" is taking a very big u-turn around "writing original code". If we decided to cut the project from the list, I still have some useful links and will open a bug ticket for it. > What do people think? Should we remove it from the list of GSoC ideas? > > (RISC-V porting in itself does sound useful to me, just somewhat > unsuitable for GSoC.) > > Ludo’. > > -- ng0 :: https://crash.cx A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 :: https://crash.cx/keys/