Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

[Chris Dale]

We’d just need to come up with a more precise task list, I suppose.  :-)
I can’t really offer to mentor work on Guile-SCSH or on a WM, unless
there’s specific integration work with Guix.

WDYT?

 That's the question I had, that Nikita brought to the forefront. What would be the precise nature of this integration? I mean, you did list wm-packaging as a summer project, and I don't much know what would be required to make it happen, nor what would make it the length of a summer!  I suppose being bootable is also secondary. I'm a fairly happy arch user, but if I could drop a Guix userland distro on top of it, I could easily see myself doing that full time.

I would be totally willing to integrate the guile-scsh and nwm, especially since neither project is yet fully realized, but I just don't know what exactly that would entail. Part of the appeal of a package manager is the modularity of the packages you install :P

So I guess, the starting place for this precise task list would be: getting the Guix distribution to the point where it can be dropped onto a normal Linux distro and used as a normal distribution. I'd like to integrate scsh and nwm, if that's a real place to go.