Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-11 Thread Jan
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:39:55 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > > The “or any later version” wording is present in source file headers, > so it’s definitely ‘gpl2+’, not ‘gpl2’. Right, that's what I was supposed to say, but my brain removed the "+". > I fixed this one and a couple of

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Jan skribis: > Don't know if this is a good place, but gnome-color-manager in this > commit: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=29ae18db0578bbdbc0119703f7412fe91927e80e > has GPL2 license in the "license" field and the COPYING file also tells > the license is GPL2, but

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-09 Thread Jan
Don't know if this is a good place, but gnome-color-manager in this commit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=29ae18db0578bbdbc0119703f7412fe91927e80e has GPL2 license in the "license" field and the COPYING file also tells the license is GPL2, but if you check a random source

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Yes! I don't think I'm alone in frustration over unnecessary packages > installed systemwide. :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-08 Thread Jan
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:40:52 +0200 Efraim Flashner wrote: > > For better or worse Gnome is the dominant desktop in the GNU/Linux > market space and we do have it packaged and offer it as part of our > default desktop example. Furthermore Raghav has already been working > on making Gnome better

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-08 Thread Jan
On Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:06:26 + "Raghav Gururajan" wrote: > Hello Jan! > > Yeah, I am too disappointed by some or half of the things they > incorporated into the project. The thing is, I want to bring more > newcomers of GNU+Linux System into Guix. I would like to see Guix > being deployed

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-08 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 11:32 +, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello Guix Folks! > > I would like to contribute to Guix via Outreachy program. Based on > domains listed in http://guix.gnu.org/contribute, I would like to > work on "Packages". > > After brief discussion with Tobias (nckx) on IRC, I

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-08 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 07:06:58PM +0100, Jan wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:32:10 + > "Raghav Gururajan" wrote: > > > Hello Guix Folks! > > > > 1) Improve GNOME Software Stack and GNOME Desktop Environment's > > user-experience in Guix. > > > In my opinion we should stay away

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-08 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Oh, I forgot mention something in my previous reply. One more reason I lean towards GNOME over KDE is because of GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. 1) Cognitive Ergonomics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_ergonomics) 2) Human-Computer Interaction

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-08 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Jan! > In my opinion we should stay away from GNOME, because it is a Red Hat > project, rather than GNU now. More than this, GNOME makes some bad for > user freedom decisions, for example they promote nonfree software in > their "Software" application. They also promote nonfree services

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-07 Thread Jan
Hi! On Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:32:10 + "Raghav Gururajan" wrote: > Hello Guix Folks! > > 1) Improve GNOME Software Stack and GNOME Desktop Environment's > user-experience in Guix. > In my opinion we should stay away from GNOME, because it is a Red Hat project, rather than GNU now. More than

Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-07 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix Folks! I would like to contribute to Guix via Outreachy program. Based on domains listed in http://guix.gnu.org/contribute, I would like to work on "Packages". After brief discussion with Tobias (nckx) on IRC, I came up with following ideas. 1) Improve GNOME Software Stack and

Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

2020-01-07 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix Folks! I would like to contribute to Guix via Outreachy program. Based on domains listed in http://guix.gnu.org/contribute (http://guix.gnu.org/contribute/), I would like to work on "Packages". After brief discussion with Tobias (nckx) on IRC, I came up with following ideas. 1)