Re: GSoC?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Cyril Roelandt <address@hidden> skribis:

> I don't have any experience with GSoC either, but I'm wondering
> whether Google will allow us to submit a list of projects since Guix
> is a really young project. Does every project have to apply on its
> own, or can GNU apply ?

GNU is applying as an organization, so this would be under GNU’s umbrella.

>> One project that would be suitable, because it’s orthogonal and
>> challenging yet doable, is some sort of a Hydra rewrite in Guile.
>
> How hard is it to port Guix to other architectures ?

Until we have cross-compilation it’s tedious.  But that’s not
sufficiently motivating or ambitious for GSoC, IMO.

> Could this be a GSoC project ? How about packaging a huge piece of
> software (I'm thinking about GNOME/KDE, for instance) ?

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

Ludo’.