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#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map

Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

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The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:

  - to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
    Guile;

  - to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
    GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
    promotion and tight integration of GNU components–the GNU system.

Since its inception, the project has gone a long way towards that goal.  Below
is a list of items we want for version "1.0" of the Guix System Distribution.
There will be a few 0.x releases by then to give the new features more
exposure and testing.

You're welcome to discuss this road map on guix-devel@gnu.org or #guix on
the Libera Chat IRC network!

* Features scheduled for 1.0

  - larger & more robust build farm
    + we need a powerful, dedicated front-end
    + armhf-linux build machine
    + leave Hydra in favor of 'guix publish' + custom code?
  - more OS features
    + LVM support
    + encrypted root
    + configurable name service switch
    + whole-system unit tests, using VMs
  - more service definitions
    + mcron, postfix(?), wicd(?), etc.
  - better 'guix system'
    + 'reconfigure' should be able to restart non-essential services
    + support for '--list-generations' and '--delete-generations'
  - better 'guix pull'
    + using Git to fetch the source instead of re-downloading everything
    + build more quickly
    + install new .mo files and new manual
    + authentication of the Guix source: use signed commits?
  - simplified, purely declarative service list in 'operating-system'
    + it should be possible to inspect the service instance declarations and
      settings
  - GUIs
    + integrate guix-web?
    + guile-ncurses installer?
  - 'guix publish'?

* Features for later

  - complete GNU/Hurd port
  - use content-based addressing when downloading substitutes to reduce
    bandwidth requirements
    + design nar v2 format where file contents are replaced by their hashes
    + leverage /gnu/store/.links
  - binary origin tracking
    + keep signatures in sqlite.db
    + preserve signatures upon import/export
  - peer-to-peer distribution of updates (GNUnet?)
  - more deterministic builds
    + identify & fix sources of non-determinism in builds
    + strengthen guix-daemon containers to further increase reproducibility
    + trusting-trust: bootstrap with different tool chains
    + fixed-point: re-bootstrap until fixed point is reached
    + distributed validation: compare contents of store items with others
      * resist a hydra.gnu.org compromise
  - reproducible containers: mix of 'guix environment' and 'guix system vm'
  - execute code with least privilege
    + build containers like guix-daemon does
    + provide a Plash-like interface in Bash
  - daemon rewritten in Guile
  - more shepherd integration
    + monitor network interfaces and start/stop events based on that
    + include a DHCP client written in Scheme
ippets: Use ‘hg-file-name’ when origin uses ‘hg-fetch’</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Adjust to changes in commit aaafd19bd1e37265de07e246286a6819792c25b4.

* etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-origin: Use ‘hg-file-name’ instead of
‘string-append’ when ‘method’ for origin is ‘hg-fetch’.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès &lt;ludo@gnu.org&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Xinglu Chen</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-12-23 17:30:14 +0100'>2020-12-23</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/etc/snippets?id=d6b0d219c6e4e8392fbeb3263c95e9b7d7c75e1c'>etc: snippets: Add new build systems to package snippet.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* etc/snippets/scheme-mode/guix-package: Add the following as possibilities
for the build-system field:

clojure-build-system
copy-build-system
dune-build-system
guile-build-system
julia-build-system
linux-module-build-system
maven-build-system
node-build-system
qt-build-system
rakudo-build-system

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès &lt;ludo@gnu.org&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Morgan Smith</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-12-04 18:19:39 +0100'>2020-12-04</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/etc/snippets?id=39e8bc2ab8f755e05050f2dcbf07143e724d22ed'>etc: snippets: Fix name extraction.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-add-package: Fix name
extraction. This is a follow-up to 988a49c78ef19ad25cef543e2059a19db04bbd36.
</span></span></td><td>Nicolas Goaziou</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-12-04 17:09:38 +0100'>2020-12-04</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/etc/snippets?id=988a49c78ef19ad25cef543e2059a19db04bbd36'>etc: snippets: Fix name extraction.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-update-package: Since git commit
mode is not derived from any Lisp mode, so-called sexp or symbols do not
include the period character.  As a consequence, names including versions are
not properly extracted. Also use more idiomatic (goto-char (point-min))
instead of (beginning-of-buffer).
</span></span></td><td>Nicolas Goaziou</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-11-25 10:45:42 +0100'>2020-11-25</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/etc/snippets?id=402f1104e58b8e76d42689770d0c6b106afaffc8'>etc: snippets: Fix "gnu: Add ..." name when prefilling Common Lisp commits me...</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-add-cl-package: Fix name and
simplify the "New variables" line.
</span></span></td><td>Pierre Neidhardt</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-11-23 11:14:22 +0100'>2020-11-23</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/etc/snippets?id=add47499170222f1d449a9a63444e01f115805ff'>etc: snippets: Prefill Common Lisp package names.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-add-cl-package: New file.
</span></span></td><td>Pierre Neidhardt</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-11-23 11:13:58 +0100'>2020-11-23</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/etc/snippets?id=8307b8f184d59f69b66292ae1137997caa50cb15'>etc: snippets: Fix package name extraction.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* etc/snippets/text-mode/guix-commit-message-add-package: Properly extract
name when the diff contains a very short `define-public ...` above the actual
new package.  This can happen when the above package is a small inherited
definition or cl/ecl package.
</span></span></td><td>Pierre Neidhardt</td></tr>