From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: On-line hackathon on Sep. 27-28? Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:44:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oaumtjmu.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]:35970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XS7UD-0007O2-81 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:44:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XS7U7-0003i0-KY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:44:45 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog127.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.107]:54276) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XS7U7-0003ht-D2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:44:39 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f175.google.com with SMTP id z10so13597626pdj.6 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:44:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87oaumtjmu.fsf@gnu.org> 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Hello! > > Last year we had an =E2=80=9Con-line hackathon=E2=80=9D to celebrate GNU= =E2=80=99s 30th > birthday=C2=B9. While discussing on IRC, it seemed a good idea to simila= rly > celebrate GNU=E2=80=99s 31st birthday, on the 27th and 28th of September. > I should be able to participate. I will be in and out doing other things, but I'd love to have a patch or two or three written during this time. > Tasks would include helping newcomers, packaging (see > ), improving the > operating system notably by adding new service definitions, hacking dmd, > fixing bugs, etc. > > This should be accessible to anyone with experience with GNU/Linux > packages. People with experience in Guile Scheme would find additional > things to work on, such as =E2=80=98guix import=E2=80=99 to import packag= e definitions > From other systems (PyPi, configure.ac, etc.), making =E2=80=98guix refre= sh=E2=80=99 > work for non-GNU packages, etc. > I will likely focus on 'guix import pypi' and/or 'guix environment'. > How does that sound? Perhaps we should setup a wiki page on > libreplanet.org to collect ideas and a list of interested people? > Here ya go: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Hackathon-09-2014 - Dave