Re: Google Summer of Code Inquiry

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Zachary,

Zachary Liebl <guix@zachliebl.com> skribis:

> I am interested in taking on one of your Google Summer of Code projects. I have been a long time NixOS user, and I need an excuse to finally get involved with Guix, and I think this is it.
>
> I am particularly interested in the project "Add support for AppImage in guix pack." What should my next steps be in my application for your GSoC project?

Thanks for reaching out to us!  I’m Cc’ing Ekaitz who’s willing to
mentor this effort according to
<https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2024> (other people
familiar with ‘guix pack’, myself included, can give a hand during the
project).

The first steps for GSoC candidates is usually to get familiar with the
project and its code base.  I would first recommend installing Guix and
playing around with it, including with ‘guix pack’.  You could try
making a first contribution, for example by adding a package that you
need but is missing.  Here’s a good entry point:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Contributing.html

These are the first things that come to mind but Ekaitz might have other
ideas!

Cheers,
Ludo’.