Re: Google Summer of Code Inquiry

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Zachary,

Zachary Liebl <guix@zachliebl.com> skribis:

> I am interested in taking on one of your Google Summer of Code projects. I 
> have been a long time NixOS user, and I need an excuse to finally get 
> involved with Guix, and I think this is it.
>
> I am particularly interested in the project "Add support for AppImage in guix 
> pack." What should my next steps be in my application for your GSoC project?

Thanks for reaching out to us!  I’m Cc’ing Ekaitz who’s willing to
mentor this effort according to
<https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2024> (other people
familiar with ‘guix pack’, myself included, can give a hand during the
project).

The first steps for GSoC candidates is usually to get familiar with the
project and its code base.  I would first recommend installing Guix and
playing around with it, including with ‘guix pack’.  You could try
making a first contribution, for example by adding a package that you
need but is missing.  Here’s a good entry point:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Contributing.html

These are the first things that come to mind but Ekaitz might have other
ideas!

Cheers,
Ludo’.