Mathieu Lirzin (2016-03-18 00:38 +0300) wrote: > Hello fellow Guix Hackers, > > Being currently a student which is due to make an internship, I intend > to turn this boring administrative injunction into an opportunity to > contribute to Guix by applying to Google Summer of Code which is > considered as an internship by University of Bordeaux standards. > > Hydra is a Nix-based continuous build system which is used by Guix to > compile packages on different platforms and to distribute packages > substitutes. With time, nix-daemon and guix-daemon are evolving > differently. Hydra being heavily dependent on nix-daemon, Guix is not > able to use its newest versions. Moreover there are some software > related performance issues (among others) in the current Guix > infrastructure that are unlikely to be solved considering the > foreignness of Hydra Perl implementation to Guix hackers. > > In that context, I am willing to work on implementing a continous build > system similar to Hydra in Guile.
Aaaah! It would be really great! Thank you so much for beginning this project! > This GSoC will not likely succeed in implementing every features Hydra > is currently providing. The objective is rather to create the basis > which will then allow further developpements to overcomes the present > difficulties. To achieve this the following milestones (suggested by > Ludo) will be followed: > > - Implementing a simple loop pulling Guix Git repository and building > every packages. > > - Adding a “job” abstraction to be able to build different Git branches. > > - Adding support for a database to keep track of the build results with > their associated commit, derivation and output. > > - Adding a API over HTTP to get the build results remotely (ideally > through an Emacs interface). I dream of a more feature-full API, as the current "M-x guix-hydra-…" stuff is not very useful. -- Alex
