Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> on behalf of the Guix community I submitted an application for this > project to participate in Outreachy, an internship project for people > from sections of the population that are commonly underrepresented in > the world of free software development. > > Our application is currently undergoing review. If accepted we will > fund one intern for the upcoming internship period between May and > August. This is great news — well done for taking the initiative. > The Guix community already has a landing page on the Outreachy website: > > https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/gnu-guix/ > > You can already submit project proposals on this page, which Ludo and I > would review and approve. Please consider becoming a co-mentor for a > project to make our ongoing participation in Outreachy a success. I have read through the documentation and I believe I would be able to commit to the duties of being a mentor / co-mentor. I would be happy to send more details of where I believe my relative strengths and weaknesses in this project would be. I couldn't see an appropriate place for that on the outreachy website — would it be best to discuss this by email with you two? Or on list? > Feel free to discuss project ideas right here before submitting an > official proposal. Project ideas for the Google Summer of Code are > equally valid for an Outreachy internship. Wrt to project ideas, if I understand the target audience right, I would propose perhaps as one project a strengthening of the Guile tooling around Guix. Starter tasks could be helping to package and review existing packages of Guile software for Guix. Actual project tasks could revolve around developing a nice Guile build system for Guix. First steps would be perhaps to enhance the gnu-build-system with additional phases for Guile specific tasks (setting the Guile site path correctly, ensuring guile dependencies are propagated inputs…) A second step might be a simplified Guile build system, which does not rely on autotools infrastructure. I believe this was discussed in the past: it would be a "beginners build system" for *Guile only* packages for quick and easy sharing in the Guix community. Finally we might look at first steps to generate guix package recipes from guile projects. A first step might be a well-defined script that generates a new project filetree, and writes a guix.scm file within it that contains a Guix recipe using the beginners guile build system. What do you think? Alex
