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Hi, |
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My name is Ethan and I'm currently a high school senior. Attending uni next |
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year, so I should be elligible to apply to the GSoC. |
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Quick background, I first started using Linux in the August of 2016. |
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Started with a few weeks of Ubuntu, then a few months of Arch Linux. On |
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Gentoo Linux since March of last year. Loving Gentoo so far. |
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I'm interested in both the Binhost API support and Social Linux |
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distribution network ideas posted on the GSoC ideas wiki page. I believe |
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that compile times is one of the factors that turns potentially interested |
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users away from Gentoo. These two ideas, specifically better Binhost |
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support, will hopefully make slow compile less of a factor against choosing |
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Gentoo as a distro. |
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I'm interested in hearing more about how you guys expect the Social Linux |
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network to function. Currently, I have some inspiration from nixOS. I have |
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not used nix before, but the way nix handles configuration is pretty cool. |
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It is all done in one central location. Maybe it would be cool to implement |
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something similar on Gentoo. |
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Link that might help explain ore: |
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https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-configuration-syntax |
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However, I think this might be too limiting / simplistic for the multitude |
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of choices that Gentoo offers. It would make sharing configs easy. Each |
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system would be uniquely defined by the config file. |
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I go by chocopuff on freenode. My GH is zyklotomic (nothing to see there |
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though). I have played around with ebuilds a bit, enough to know how to |
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version bump and attempt submitting PRs. My bugzilla account is also tied |
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to this email address. I have much to learn, am still a newbie! |
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Thanks for reading! Looking forward to hearing back. |
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Best, |
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Ethan Kiang |