From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: CFP: GNU Hacker Meeting 2016 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:36:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87oa6i4zw4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k2j2hx03.fsf@gnu.org> <87twh7rdtf.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1mz4vm4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34237) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIbD0-0004u2-DM for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:36:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIbCx-0000Ty-Tk for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:36:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d1mz4vm4.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:56:35 +0200") 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: Mathieu Lirzin Cc: Guix-devel@gnu.org Howdy! Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > After some hesitance, I have decided to propose a 20 min talk for > Cuirass. Cuirass may become an important part of our tool set, so I think it=E2=80= =99s great to have a discussion about it. Thank you! >> Maybe we could have a Guix hacking session, or hard-core technical >> discussions among Guix hackers, if there=E2=80=99s interest. >> >> Thoughts? Suggestions? > > I like the idea of a hacking session, however finding a common project > to work on, seems hard. It is likely to fall into a one person hacking > session while the others are trying to figure out the basics without > going anywhere. Yeah, that=E2=80=99s always difficult. > What would interest me most, would be to exchange on things that can be > difficult to explain on IRC or a mailing list. What I have in mind are > things like: > > - Guile hacking tips > - Subsystems code Analysis (build systems, importers, linter, ...) > - Presentation of tools related to Guix (Autotools, Emacs, Graphviz, QEMU= , ...) > > What do people think? That sounds like a good idea. Topics that stand out for me are (1) the subsystem overview, and (2) the Emacs interfaces (roughly Geiser + all the components of =E2=80=9Cguix.el= =E2=80=9D.) I think each one of them could take the form of a (possibly not-too-long) talk, or more a tutorial-style thing if there are enough attendees who already have experience with Guix. I=E2=80=99m happy to help with that, but I think there are several other pe= ople who could very well talk about it. Any volunteers? :-) Anyway, we should probably submit something now so we have time for it. Efraim Flashner skribis: > Helping everyone be more efficient with the tools we normally use would > be great. I for one find emacs daunting, but even just getting the hang > of opening it up, using debbugs and some simple tasks without needing to > click on the toolbar on top would be good. Cool, that confirms the other suggestions above. :-) > Other things to hack on that I've thought about were EFI/u-boot support > and combining QEMU and guix offload. Could be fun! Let=E2=80=99s keep that in mind and we can sit down and discuss/hack there. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.