Re: GSoC project ideas

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> GNU has applied as an organization to participate in Google’s Summer of
> Code program again (see below.)
>
> I see several Guix-related topics that we could propose:

[...]

> Any other ideas come to mind?  Thoughts?

Could using Guile SSH for build offloading be made a project or is this
the scope not big enough?

This might also be extended to allow Guix clients to communicate with a
remote Guix daemon, all operating on a shared store.  This would be a
special case of offloading where the remote build machine is always used
and no local Guix daemon needs to run at all.

I'm suggesting this because it would enable users to manage their
profiles even in the restrictive case where they have no local
guix-daemon running and when the store is mounted read-only except on a
blessed build machine.

~~ Ricardo