Re: On-line hackathon on Sep. 27-28?

[Thompson, David]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Last year we had an “on-line hackathon” to celebrate GNU’s 30th
> birthday¹.  While discussing on IRC, it seemed a good idea to similarly
> celebrate GNU’s 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
> <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Wishlist>), 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 ‘guix import’ to import package definitions
> From other systems (PyPi, configure.ac, etc.), making ‘guix refresh’
> 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