Re: [gnu-soc] GNU Guix Project: Decentralized substitute distribution

[Nick]

If you would like true decentralization take a look for git
decentralization techniques atop of L2 chains.. As I know all of those
projects stalled a little bit.

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023, 16:53 Shivam Madlani <shivammadlani5@gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Shivam Madlani <shivammadlani5@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 12:42
> Subject: [gnu-soc] GNU Guix Project: Decentralized substitute distribution
> To: <summer-of-code@gnu.org>
>
> Hello all,
> My name is Shivam Madlani aiming for GSoC'23, and I am particularly
> interested in The Guix project. I took a look at the project idea and
> installed a fresh version of Guix on a VM and started playing around in it.
> I have a few questions regarding the project which I think you guys can
> help me with:
>
> 1) The project title states "decentralized"... which i don't get. How
> exactly is it decentralized? Similar to a P2P file sharing tech or
> something else (BitTorrent)?
> 2) As per the project idea I interpreted that the technologies involved
> would be c/c++, shell and a bit of networking. Is this correct or am I
> missing something?
> 3) What would be the duration of the project? (175hrs/350hrs).
>
> Thank you all and I hope to hear from you soon. :)
>
> Regards
>