Re: “Future of Guix” panel

[Christopher Allan Webber]

It looks good.  We won't run out of topics for sure. :)

Pjotr Prins writes:

> Heh. Long list.
>
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 12:11:15AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Guix!
>> 
>> We’ll close FOSDEM with a discussion on the future of Guix and GuixSD:
>> 
>>   https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/futureofguix/
>> 
>> Attached is a semi-structured list of topics that came to mind.  Please
>> feel free to bring your own, either at the event (this Sunday), or on
>> this list, or on IRC during the event maybe?
>> 
>> Ludo’.
>> 
>
>> #+TITLE: Future of Guix (panel)
>> #+STARTUP: content hidestars
>> 
>> https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/futureofguix/
>> Sunday, 16:30, K.4.601
>> 
>> * Organization
>> 
>> ** sharing the work load
>> 
>> *** security updates
>> 
>> *** build farm
>> 
>> *** web site, posts, videos, etc.
>> 
>> *** handling branches: starting & merging ‘core-updates’, ‘staging’
>> 
>> *** release management: setting a date, choosing what goes in, publishing
>> 
>> *** GSoC mentoring
>> 
>> ** review
>> 
>> *** getting more reviewers
>> 
>> *** facilitating the process
>> 
>> *** encouraging newcomers
>> 
>> ** funding
>> 
>> *** development
>> 
>>   - how do we get core & maintenance work funded?
>>   - how do we get funding for new areas (like ‘guix deploy’)?
>> 
>> *** infrastructure (build farm)
>> 
>>   - sustaining infrastructure growth and maintenance
>>   - Jan. 2016 crowdfunding was enough for a start
>> 
>> * Publicity, outreach
>> 
>> ** high-performance computing (HPC)
>> 
>> *** competition: EasyBuild, Spack, Singularity, Shifter
>> 
>> *** stories: MDC, Utrecht, Brisbane
>> 
>> *** possible cooperation in the near future
>> 
>> ** reproducible science
>> 
>> *** how to help projects such as [[https://rescience.github.io/][ReScience]]?
>> 
>> *** make reproducible free software stacks the obvious choice
>> 
>> ** containers, deployment
>> 
>> *** competition: Docker, Kubernetes, NixOps
>> 
>> *** stories: gov.uk (Chris Baines), bayfront.guixsd.org
>> 
>> ** hold Guix User Gatherings (GUGs)?
>> 
>> * Code
>> 
>> ** 1.0 in 2017! (see roadmap in 
>> [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-20160818.pdf][GHM 2016 talk]])
>> 
>> *** ‘guix pull’ and channels
>> 
>> *** Git checkout authentication
>> 
>> *** performance & usability improvements
>> 
>> *** GuixSD graphical installer (John)
>> 
>> *** self-hosted infrastructure
>> 
>> **** Cuirass
>> 
>> **** ‘guix publish’ improvements
>> 
>> **** build machines running GuixSD
>> 
>> *** bug fixes
>> 
>> ** next big thing: ‘guix deploy’
>> 
>> ** scalability
>> 
>> *** better importers & updaters
>> 
>> *** better ‘guix lint -c cve’
>> 
>> ** reproducibility: reach 90% or so, and measure
>> 
>> ** bootstrapping
>> 
>> *** reduce the size of our bootstrap binaries (Bournish? Mes? …)
>> 
>> *** “do something” about compilers that cannot be bootstrapped