Hi Alex, > I want to be a student this year since this will be my final chance (I > am graduating this year). I look at the libreplanet page and I think > only the build daemon project is suitable for me since I don't have > knowledge in networking. Is it possible for me to work on last-year > Bournish project?
The Bournish project is poorly defined now that gash exists, a Bash interpreter written in Guile. It wouldn’t be a lot of work to integrate gash into Guix and replace Bournish; in fact I wanted to do this myself in a few weeks. I’m afraid that the Bournish project would no longer be suitable for GSoC, and that’s why it had been removed from the list of project ideas. The guix-daemon project is larger but also much more useful to us. Garbage collection in the context of Guix is not very difficult to understand. The garbage collector may remove any item that has zero users; the link count on a store item is indicative of the number of users that item has. For garbage collection you essentially go through all items and check if the link count is zero. The reference scanner is already implemented in the form of grafts. The code opens each file and searches efficiently for store references. For that project it is best to spend a day or two browsing the existing Guile sources and noting the many things that already implement large parts of the daemon features. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net