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On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Ethan Kiang <chocopuff298@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> My name is Ethan and I'm currently a high school senior. Attending uni |
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next |
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> year, so I should be elligible to apply to the GSoC. |
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Hello Ethan, |
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Welcome to Gentoo GSoC mailing list. |
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> Quick background, I first started using Linux in the August of 2016. |
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Started |
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> with a few weeks of Ubuntu, then a few months of Arch Linux. On Gentoo |
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Linux |
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> since March of last year. Loving Gentoo so far. |
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Thanks for loving Gentoo and for your passion on Linux. |
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> I'm interested in both the Binhost API support and Social Linux |
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distribution |
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> network ideas posted on the GSoC ideas wiki page. I believe that compile |
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> times is one of the factors that turns potentially interested users away |
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> from Gentoo. These two ideas, specifically better Binhost support, will |
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> hopefully make slow compile less of a factor against choosing Gentoo as a |
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> distro. |
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I think you can find more inspiration in the thread about building binary |
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packages and |
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Social Linux Distribution Network: |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/3a801271d2b3ac97c29b4e6319b37009 |
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There was some interested in integrating Gentoo with the Open Build |
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Service, one problem |
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quoting Michał Górny is "if it requires changes to the ebuild format, then |
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you |
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have to list them and convince us. If it doesn't, then you are free to |
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play with OBS any way you like." |
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Would be nice to maybe do some research in that way and see if it can |
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become some work for the GSoC. |
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The second point was about sharing the Gentoo user's profile setups and |
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give the possibility |
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to use a build service in case multiple machines are using the same profile. |
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I think you need to do a bit of research and starting to take data for |
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write a proposal. |
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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 |
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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'm not sure how Nix works but looks interesting. |
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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 |
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> this email address. I have much to learn, am still a newbie! |
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Keep the good work! |
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> Thanks for reading! Looking forward to hearing back. |
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> Best, |
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> Ethan Kiang |
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Thanks, |
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Alice |
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-- |
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Thanks, |
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Alice Ferrazzi |
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Gentoo Kernel Project Leader |
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Gentoo Foundation Vice-Secretary |
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Gentoo Google Summer of Code Administrator |
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Mail: Alice Ferrazzi <alicef@g.o> |
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