On 26 February 2011 00:38, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/2/25 Ángel Velásquez <[email protected]>: >> 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. > > 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 > >> 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 > that may want to continue after SoC is complete.
* Pacman (real optdepends handling)
