Hello Ludovic, On Mar 21 2014, [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Hi! > > Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <[email protected]> skribis: > >> I know its too late and few hours before the dead line of GSOC >> application. Anyway I wrote a proposal based on previously discussed by Xue¹ > > Heh, we can thank him. ;-) Yes. Big thanks to him. > >> in the list. I am attaching that here. I would like to work on this whether >> or not I will get selected for GSOC. I seek your comments (especially >> Ludovic.) > > I don’t see significant differences compared to what we originally > discussed with Xue, and I like the proposal. > > One thing the proposal doesn’t mention is the possibility to have an > additional mode to browse the generation history. I think it’d be nice > to keep it as a “bonus item”. Yes, you raised that in a reply to Xue's mail. I will include that as well. >> * Timeline of the development. >> ** Before April 21: >> - Getting familiar with guix concepts and code base >> - Study Emacs Package.el implementation. >> - Adding new package to guix. >> >> ** April 20 – May 23: >> - Start on guix.el coding. >> - Initial work on Elisp interface of guix function calls. >> - Finalizing on guix.el implementation concepts that includes how to interact >> with guix from Emacs. > > An open question is whether to rely on Geiser for communication between > Emacs and Guix. I suggest discussing it with jao, the author of Geiser. I will mail him, before so I will look into Geiser code. > >> ** May 24 – July 15: >> - Implementation of glue code between Elisp and Guix. >> - Work towards primary usable implementation of guix.el. >> >> ** July 16 – July 24: >> - Code cleanup >> - Fixing initial reported bugs. >> - Preparing for submission of mid term evaluation >> >> ** June 27th Mid term evaluation >> >> ** June 28 – July 15: >> - Further changes to improve code functionality. >> - Refactoring code if required. >> - Writing tests >> >> ** July 15 – July 25: >> - Start working on documentation to meet GNU documentation standards. >> - Fixing remaining bugs. >> - Code cleanup >> >> ** July 26 - August 11 >> - reserved time left for unexpected delays. >> - During whole period I will be communicating with mentor in guix IRC >> channel. > > Looks good to me! Thanks. > > Also, an important part of GSoC, IMO, is communication. So I’d expect > that we keep in touch on IRC and the mailing list during GSoC, so we can > share our thoughts, problems, experience, etc. Sure, I will. I will have lot of question as I am very new working with scheme. I will submit the proposal and will send you the final copy. Thanks. -- ఎందరో మహానుభావులు అందరికి వందనములు. YYR
