There is a goal[0] to make Guix Home[1] a part of GNU Guix. It will reduce the duplications between projects, increase integrity and will provide Guix users with a missing tool for declarative configuration of home environments improving out of the box experience and allowing Guix users on foreign distros to have Guix System-like experience.
The outline of before upstreaming checklist looks like: * [done] Implement a `guix home` utility and essential services. * [in-progress] Implement a complete home environment with it [2]. * [in-progress] Run Early Adopters program, gather feedback. * [done] Write documentation [3]. * [in-progress] Generate documentation for each home service. * [in-progress] Test a complete home environment on foreign distro. * [todo] Add tests for complex serializers and essential functions. I don't expect upstreaming process to be fast, it will require a lot of time for review and probably changes after review and it seems logical to start it early, even before checklist is complete. Also, I don't want to replicate documenting and testing infrastracture and that is why we will be adding docs and tests directly to guix repo (for now it's [4]), while moving the code from rde project. We still cleaning up things, but I hope that we can start sending patches in a week or two. I expect it to be a few patch series. civodul, can we create a separate guix-home branch to work against it? Dear Maintainers, please, let me know what you think. [0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-03/msg00167.html [1]: https://sr.ht/~abcdw/rde [2]: Complete home environment in this context is a configured and integrated minimalistic set of apps: window manager/compositor, text editor, vcs, mail client, web browser, key and password managers, shell. [3]: https://guix-home.trop.in/Home-Configuration.html#Home-Configuration [4]: https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guix -- Best regards, Andrew Tropin
