Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-07 Thread Lulu
Hello everyone, My name is Lulu and I'm a DevOps engineer and Scheme hobbyist from Turkey. I just got accepted to Outreachy and I would like to contribute to GNU Guix. My pronouns are they/them and my timezone is UTC+3. I go by `erkin' on Freenode and GitHub. Looking forward to workin

Re: Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-08 Thread Lulu
bout how this mentorship process works? Is there a regular schedule with meetings or progress reports or such? [1]: https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2020-internship-round/communities/gnu-guix/#add-a-subcommand-showing-gnu-guix-history-of-all-p -- Lulu

Re: Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-08 Thread Lulu
Hi Brett, > Congratulations on your Outreachy acceptance. Thanks! > Do you have any ideas for what you might want to contribute? I'm learning the internals of Guix right now but I'm planning on doing the task for adding a `guix git log' subcommand. -- Lulu (they/them)

First impressions from delving into Guix

2020-10-10 Thread Lulu
a `guix pull' and everything was dandy. With no more yaks to shave, I ran finished bootstrapping, ran the post install environment and my subcommand works! Now I can go back to add the functional parts of the script. I'll keep you updated! -- Lulu

Re: First impressions from delving into Guix

2020-10-11 Thread Lulu
o package something. > Easy and good candidates for first packages are CRAN or BioConductor > packages: > > You can pick unpackaged one from the list [8]. Do not hesitate to ask > me if you do not find an obvious one –– it should a good occasion to > show you “guix repl”. :-) Sure thing! But shouldn't I finish the Git log subcommand first? Or should I leave it to last? -- Lulu

Re: First impressions from delving into Guix

2020-10-11 Thread Lulu
tely it's very easy to build it from scratch, with a `./configure --program-suffix=3.0' to make it play nice with the existing Guile 2.2. -- Lulu

Re: First impressions from delving into Guix

2020-10-12 Thread Lulu
m. ^^; With this in mind, I'll work on packaging for the time being. Thanks for the clarification! :-) -- Lulu