From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven vanZyl Subject: GSOC Draft Proposal Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:45:07 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="000000000000ebccd605a21d8e01" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55113) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6u4-0003FI-6o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:45:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6u2-0003g2-9q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:45:24 -0400 Received: from mail-ed1-f41.google.com ([209.85.208.41]:45593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6u2-0003fc-2D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:45:22 -0400 Received: by mail-ed1-f41.google.com with SMTP id u59so23307306edc.12 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wm1-f50.google.com (mail-wm1-f50.google.com. [209.85.128.50]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id rn2sm1952711ejb.17.2020.03.30.19.45.19 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm1-f50.google.com with SMTP id b12so875222wmj.3 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:45:19 -0700 (PDT) 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --000000000000ebccd605a21d8e01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello all, I am a prospective Google Summer of Code student who would like to work on improving the Guix importer system and writing some new ones for the Go Modules and Arch Linux PKGBUILD formats. I admit that I am a rather late with this, but the last month has been a bit more hectic than we'd all anticipated and there is still some time left before the deadline. Linked below is my proposal as a Notion document, and the same proposal is attached in the Markdown format. https://www.notion.so/rushsteve1/GNU-Guix-Proposal-d13dd543c5224ca395a9cad849bbe0db Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! And thank you for your patience for this late submission. 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