On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> 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