[arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

[Michael Lojkovic]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 20:51:37 +0530
Aniket Pradhan <aniket17133 at iiitd.ac.in> wrote:

> Hello Govind, and Everyone!
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
> Your arguments are on point, and I agree with you on the fact that the
> ideas do not apply to Arch.
> 
> If we can think of some better ideas (which apply to Arch, like the
> reproducible builds or the CLI tool as you discussed) we would need
> people to step up and mentor these ideas out of their free time.
> Moreover, if Arch is willing to include some community tools (who
> decides which tools should be included), we might get some more cool
> ideas, but in the end, we would also need someone to mentor the idea.
> 
> In the end, it all boils down to the availability of mentors. and
> ideas.
> 
> I also had this cool idea, where developers (who will act as mentors)
> can pitch in their ideas for community packages and select students
> through GSoC. This will provide them with the necessary help in
> developing the tool. However, then it would not be a
> "community-driven" package, would it?
> 
> There can be several flaws to this suggestion, but as Govind said, it
> would be amazing if others can share their opinion on this topic.
> 

The only thing I can think of, which applies to Arch is implementing
remakepkg features in pacman. I was going to add those in when I got
around to it, but it's also worth doing for Google Summer of Code.

 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236076