Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!

[swedebugia]

On 2019-06-27 21:02, Alex Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019, at 4:31 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > What do *you* want Guix to address in the future?
>
> * Guix System
>
> ** TODO add firewall-service to provide a configurable stateful firewall 
> suitable for most desktops and servers

+1

> *** TODO add service-extensions to existing services so that firewall-service 
> can be added to %base-services without unnecessary breakage
>
> ** TODO use guile-bash to automatically update environment variables when the 
> current profile changes
>
> ** TODO support more partitioning and bootloader configurations (full disk 
> encryption without entering password twice, LVM support, os-prober, etc.)
> *** TODO support secured boot from Heads/PureBoot 
> (https://docs.puri.sm/PureBoot.html)
>
> ** TODO easier loading of out-of-tree kernel modules
>
> ** TODO run-time configuration system for services, similar to OpenWrt's UCI
>
>
> * Command Line Interface
>
> ** TODO refresh able to take a contributor name and find out-of-date packages 
> that they have contributed to
>
> ** TODO improved search: support AND terms instead of OR, configurable recfmt 
> template
>
> ** TODO package --show should allow multiple arguments and not require an equal 
> sign

+1

> * Other
>
> ** TODO evaluate shepherd service definitions placed somewhere in 
> ~/.guix-profile before evaluating ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm
>
> ** TODO support automatic GPG/signify signature verification of origin objects
>
> ** TODO better Node.js packaging and tooling

This seem to have gotten stuck. But I heard something about a 
guile-semver and also we need to handle circular dependencies better in 
guix to make it easier to discover and mitigate them.

Compared to the whole expat/JS community Guix is still a very small 
project. The bootstrap problems will probably take years to complete 
with the current pace/manpower/interest.

Maybe we should propose The GNU Project to create and seek funding for a 
"fix JS (bootstrap)" campaign? Compilers will need to be written 
according to Julien (like rustc).

> *** TODO package important Icecat and Ungoogled-Chromium extensions. This is a 
> pain point because IceCat steers users away from Firefox Add-ons and 
> Ungoogled-Chromium completely disallows installing from Chrome Web Store.

Actually currently our Chrome does not support add-ons at all. See bug 
#35709

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Cheers Swedebugia