From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Call for project proposals: Guix and Outreachy Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:48:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87zi4jvbgg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fu6y27re.fsf@elephly.net> <87zi4lg4ep.fsf@elephly.net> <20180207105721.GB2876@jurong> 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]:53659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejmZI-0008Jx-Ni for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:48:54 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejmZG-0002LT-6z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:48:52 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a0c:e300::1]:48908) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejmZF-0002Jv-Vt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:48:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20180207105721.GB2876@jurong> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:57:21 +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: Andreas Enge Cc: Guix-devel Andreas Enge skribis: > quite a list of interesting ideas! > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:51:10AM +0100, G=C3=A1bor Boskovits wrote: >> 10. provide user interface to our build farm where we could request buil= ding 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=E2=80=99.