2011/2/25 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.org>:
Hi,
I'm just wondering why we didn't participate in GSoC, many open source projects got improved for this kind of programs. "why we don't"? The submission period hasn't even started.
Just wondering areas in which we can receive and mentor students with the permission of the projects owner I will do a list of possible areas of work:
* Pacman (Adding signed packages) * AIF and archiso integration * Namcap * Netcfg * <insert project here>
Please don't kill me if the idea is wrong, It just came to my mind that idea. Definitely a good idea and a great way to possibly find new developers
I am all for it; start putting together a project ideas page and an application and I'd be glad to fill it with pacman ideas. A few real quick: * Package signing * Package "hooks" * True transactions - e.g. we have the ability to fully check and roll back, this may include some BTRFS and other filesystems snapshot support and ability to roll back. * VCS packaging. And of course: * Automatic building system- look at PKGBUILD.com and old pacbuild, and possibly newer innovations like Hudson/Jenkins. Turn it into something where it all "just works" and is intuitive and safe. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Roadmap that may want to continue after SoC is complete. -Dan