From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: GSoC project ideas Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:54:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87bnkjgvol.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]:34601) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQHpJ-0005l0-5E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:55:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQHpD-0005tA-A9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:55:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bnkjgvol.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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > GNU has applied as an organization to participate in Google=E2=80=99s S= ummer 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