Re: Call for project proposals: Guix and Outreachy

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> quite a list of interesting ideas!
>
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
>> 10. provide user interface to our build farm where we could request building a
>> specific package.
>
> This is one specific feature, but could be framed into a more general
> project of creating a web frontend to cuirass, with a number of subtasks
> (one thing that we use a lot on hydra: with one click, restart the build
> of all packages that failed previously).
>
> As in Ricardo's suggestion, this would appeal to diverse competences,
> in guile, javascript, databases and interface design. So I think something
> interesting and useful would certainly come out of it.

Agreed!  Actually one thing is adding more /api/* HTTP entry points.
Another one is writing the Web frontend.  Each of these could be a
project on its own, I think.

Thoughts?

Ricardo, should we draft something on this topic?

Ludo’.