Re: GSoC ideas

[Pjotr Prins]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:17:08PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> >>  - g-expressions which generate packages of the Guix package manager for
> >>    .deb and .rpm based distros, and work to get those upstream in Debian
> >>    and Fedora
> >
> > That would be useful, and CheckInstall may be good enough for that.  I
> > don’t think it’s “enough” for GSoC, though.  WDYT?
> 
> If the student was really to package Guix for many distributions, it
> might be enough.  Especially if that student was to explore packaging
> with upstream.  Anyway, the payout could be *huge*.

One thing to keep in mind is that GSoC is about programming. So, we
have to be clear about that in the proposal.

> If they finish early, I'm sure we could find other things for them to
> do?  :)

Better to put a secondary job in - such as improving the web-ui or
creating a tool for importing deb packages, or something. Students
will come if they think the job challenging/interesting enough.

Pj.