DeveloperWiki:Google Summer of Code
The Arch Linux development team is considering to participate this year in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), here is a draft on what areas we are needing improvements.
The main idea here is to help the development of these tools, improving it, making patches and fixing bugs for now.
Project Ideas
- Aurweb rewrite in Python
- PKGBUILD Language server (implement a Language Server Protocol)
- Signing enclave system - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/signstar
- Package rebuilder list - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-rebuild-order
- Package version crawler - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/sandcrawler
- Dbscripts rewrite in Python (svn2git) - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-repo-management
- Arch Linux Installer (arch-installer) - https://github.com/kgizdov/arch-installer
Pacman-related Ideas
- adding sync db write into libalpm, and use that to reimplement repo-add/repo-remove
- --print-format should work for many, many more options
- iterator interface for databases
- getting pacman to compile in C++ and switching to some STL
- parallel computations
Potential Mentors
- AUR - Lukas
- Archweb - Jelle
- Pacman - Allan
- arch-installer - Konstantin
gollark: But there are an infinitely large number of possible gods, and some do weirder things like "punish/reward entirely at random", "have no interest whatsoever in humanity", "punish people who believe in other gods", and all that, and Pascal's Wager just *ignores* those.
gollark: Pascal's Wager might work if the only options are "no god" or "one god, and it's the one you believe in, and they'll reward you if you believe and punish you otherwise".
gollark: Also, I should be specific, "a god and associated religious claims", not just "a god".
gollark: Pascal's Wager is really stupid.
gollark: > I’d rather just have faith and get on with my lifeThis seems like a bizarre attitude, since if you... don't actually have evidence for a god at all... it's really weird for that belief to affect your decisions.
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