Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
ng0 skribis: > On 17-02-14 10:10:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Christopher Allan Webber skribis: >> >> > One interesting change from when this was defined last year and this >> > year is that the "extensible event loop" one has some candidates to pick >> > from, via guile a-sync, fibers, and 8s

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-14 Thread ng0
On 17-02-14 10:10:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > > > One interesting change from when this was defined last year and this > > year is that the "extensible event loop" one has some candidates to pick > > from, via guile a-sync, fibers, and 8sync. > > > > However u

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > One interesting change from when this was defined last year and this > year is that the "extensible event loop" one has some candidates to pick > from, via guile a-sync, fibers, and 8sync. > > However using any of those would require Shepherd being pinned to Gu

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
David Craven skribis: >> Students, mentors, and hackers: please discuss your ideas on this list >> and add them to the wiki page! > > RISCV port. Why not, please add it to the wiki page! > I've made a lot of progress on the bootloader stuff. I'll be posting patches > for commenting soon. > > I

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-13 Thread David Craven
> Note: I don't know if you are talking about Linux-libre in the context > of the package definition for Guix Oh, I'm talking about the package definition - not linux-libre itself. RISCV is a computer architecture like ARM or x86_64. RISCV has simply not upstreamed their patches yet and has nothi

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-13 Thread David Craven
> "Mark was completely right - it's total BS". Well I did some work on running guixsd on arm, part of which involved trying to make the linux-libre package more extensible. Mark criticized it as not being very well thought out, and I found that it was not very extensible. Coming from a background

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-13 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Sorry, I just came by to this topic, and I'm somewhat interested in the context of the phrase "Mark was completely right - it's total BS".

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-13 Thread David Craven
> Students, mentors, and hackers: please discuss your ideas on this list > and add them to the wiki page! RISCV port. I've made a lot of progress on the bootloader stuff. I'll be posting patches for commenting soon. I have a riscv toolchain up and running and it boots the riscv-linux. I rewrote

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-13 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Mathieu Lirzin writes: > Hello, > > GNU is applying as an organization for Google Summer of Code 2017. So > this is time to start gathering ideas for possible Guix/Shepherd related > projects. > > I have created a page based on the one from last year: > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix

Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > GNU is applying as an organization for Google Summer of Code 2017. So > this is time to start gathering ideas for possible Guix/Shepherd related > projects. > > I have created a page based on the one from last year: > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSo

Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

2017-01-20 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello, GNU is applying as an organization for Google Summer of Code 2017. So this is time to start gathering ideas for possible Guix/Shepherd related projects. I have created a page based on the one from last year: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2017 It's a Wiki, so feel free t