Hi Brett,

Brett Gilio <bre...@gnu.org> skribis:

> 1. Just as the bootstrappability and guix-hpc projects have their own
> websites documenting their efforts, I think it would be nice to have
> https://fm.guix.gnu.org/ which would host a Haunt-generated
> website. This website would be hosted in the Savannah project structure
> for GNU Guix. This would document who is active in the coordination and
> oversight of this working group, and would express a clear and mutual
> relationship with the GNU Guix / Guix System project.

Like I wrote in another message, the only question will be the domain
name, but other than that it sounds great.

> 2. Perhaps we should adopt a particular tag for the Guix Debbugs
> tracker, so as to be able to clearly delineate that this particular
> patch or bug is in relation with the formal methods working
> group. Maybe something like [FM].

I’d say let’s figure it out when it becomes an issue.  :-)

> 3. It was suggested that maybe a #guix-fm IRC channel might be useful,
> but we have had a mixed bag of opinions on this. I personally think that
> keeping everything together is the better solution, but I'd still like
> to hear acceptance or criticism of this idea.

Keeping everything on #guix for now sounds like the right thing to me.

> 4. A lot of documenting working group milestones (Working on a Coq
> sub-importer for OPAM, writing a bootstrapping compiler for SML97,
> doing regular packaging duties for formal methods projects,
> communicating upstream about distribution package quality, and perhaps
> even trying to do formal methods work via synthesis in GNU Guile / GNU
> Guix would be likely best expressed on the mailing list, and the
> https://fm.guix.gnu.org/ website, but this likely rests in the hands of
> the GNU Guix maintainers, of which I am not.
>
> 5. Additionally, maybe making an introductory post on the
> https://guix.gnu.org/ blog about the preliminary goals of the working
> group, after having our own subdomain established, would be a good way
> to attract some attention to the project by distributing links to it on
> HackerNews, Reddit, and Formal Methods/Functional Programming-related
> mailing lists.

Sounds like a great plan to me!

Ludo’.


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