Group: Guix/GSoC-2016

This page is for tracking ideas and process for participating in Google Summer of Code 2016.

Possible topics

Installer wizard for GuixSD

A program that can be bundled with a bootable image which provides an "installer wizard" for the Guix System Distribution. This would walk users through partitioning, setting up users, etc, then set up the disk appropriately, write out the proper Guix system description file, and use it to build the first bootable version of the system.

This could use ncurses or maybe even some graphical toolkit.

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Packages for foreign distributions

Packages for the guix package manager for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS, etc, to help users of these GNU/Linux distributions come up to speed with Guix much faster. Work to build these packages from within Guix (similar to how we build the "Guix from tarball" install medium). Explore hosting "PPA" type resources within Guix's own resources, and work with upstream distributions to explore likelihood of Guix being packaged within those distributions.

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Graphical package / system manager =

Provide a GUI (ncurses, gtk, or something) for installing, upgrading, and rolling back a user's profile. Do the same for the system profile, and provide a way to configure the system.

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Arm64 port

Port Guix to Arm64!

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