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Re: GSoC ideas
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Christopher Allan Webber |
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Re: GSoC ideas |
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Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:11:33 -0800 |
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Pjotr Prins writes:
> 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.
So, while we're on the topic of hopes and dreams that I might
*personally* love to see solved through GSoC, but maybe people will be
like "That's not enough of a GSoC programming project"....
npm packaging and importer. Even better: enough npm packaging and
importing to where we package pump.io :)
It might not be the most fun GSoC project though?
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), (continued)
- Re: GSoC ideas, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2016/02/24
- Re: GSoC ideas, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2016/02/24
- Re: GSoC ideas, Diane Trout, 2016/02/24
- Re: GSoC ideas, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/25
- Re: GSoC ideas, Diane Trout, 2016/02/25
- Re: GSoC ideas, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/09
- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/09
- Re: GSoC ideas, Pjotr Prins, 2016/02/10
- Re: GSoC ideas,
Christopher Allan Webber <=
- Re: GSoC ideas, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/11
- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/11
- Re: GSoC ideas, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/21
Re: GSoC ideas, Manolis Ragkousis, 2016/02/11
Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/11
Re: GSoC ideas, Samuel Thibault, 2016/02/28
Re: GSoC ideas, Richard Braun, 2016/02/29
Re: GSoC ideas, Ben Woodcroft, 2016/02/06