Hi Gabriel, Gabriel Wicki <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi there, fellow Guix! > > I recently picked up the great opportunity of a (paid) gig for the Free > Silicon Foundation (F-Si). The F-Si received a grant to push free > software in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) space, where > proprietary software with license fees up to $1M/year/user dominate. Congratulation for the gig :-). It sounds interesting! [...] > In the meantime I have the following concrete questions: > > 1. Should we introduce our efforts to the general public through a blog > post addressing both the Guix and the F-Si crowd? I have a draft ready > that I will soon send through the list. I am not sure if our blog is > really the right medium for that, since it is mostly a promotion of > Guix for electronics designers, but maybe this still fits? It's Guix-related; thus I think it would be fine to have it on the Guix website. > 2. How do we handle Codeberg Milestones? Could we create one and > organize our efforts through that tool? I think that'd be a great way to > coordinate work and lure in more helping hands (and minds). Why not! We could have milestones for the electronics team. > 3. Could we eventually maybe build bundles of software (through > manifests) on our CI infrastructure? So people anxious to install and > use Guix on their machines could still get a good use of our efforts? > This seems like an (almost) free addition once packages are built > already. WDYT? I don't think the Guix CI proper should make this kind of bundle available itself (bundles are IO/disk space intensive), but it'd be nice if these resources could be made available somewhere. I think perhaps even a full OS definition (say, a GNOME system shipping with some of the best/most loved/popular EDA tools), ready to be downloaded and run in a VM or directly installed. I'd also see these hosted somewhere else than on guix.gnu.org, but the Guix blog could be use to say how to generated the system (and it could have a template under gnu/systems/examples/). As suggested by Ekaitz, perhaps meta-packages would make more sense to group things in an efficient/cheap way (this could be done in Guix). -- Thanks, Maxim
