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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
Freenode!

* 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
Services): Replace with
'git-daemon-service-type'

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès &lt;ludo@gnu.org&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Bruno Victal</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2022-11-17 12:00:32 +0000'>2022-11-17</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/services/version-control.scm?id=35ef5fca0ac997680e47942e25f403fb3ec54c7d'>services: gitolite: Use the correct variable for the user-group.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>The default value for &lt;gitolite-configuration&gt; has "git" for both the values
of the user and the group, as costumary, which means that unless someone uses
a custom configuration and chooses different strings for user and group, this
wouldn't show up.

* gnu/services/version-control.scm (gitolite-accounts): Use the correct
variable for the name of a (user-group ...).

Signed-off-by: Christopher Baines &lt;mail@cbaines.net&gt;
</span></span></td><td>EuAndreh</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2022-11-07 20:29:14 +0100'>2022-11-07</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/services/version-control.scm?id=73b35195681f8367e27ebf2a239c2d4790fb2304'>services: gitolite: Add local-code configuration option.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/services/version-control.scm (gitolite-rc-file): Add local-code
field.
(gitolite-rc-file-compiler): Serialize the field.
* doc/guix.texi: Document it.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Baines &lt;mail@cbaines.net&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Alexey Abramov</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2022-10-17 07:29:09 +0200'>2022-10-17</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/services/version-control.scm?id=82b0f3755d12e04578a54ee53b3a8051958e8143'>guix: Fix typos.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>These typos were found and reported through weblate.

* gnu/packages/audio.scm (wildmidi)[description]: Fix typo.
* gnu/packages/games.scm (cgoban)[description]: Fix typo.
* gnu/services/version-control.scm (gitolite-service-type)[description]:
  Fix typo.
* gnu/installer/newt/substitutes.scm (run-substitutes-page): Remove full
  stop at end of title.
* gnu/machine/ssh.scm (machine-ssh-configuration-system): Move
  punctuation outside of quotes.
* guix/scripts/home.scm (process-action): Remove trailing space before
  newline.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (show-help): Fix typo.
* guix/scripts/environment.scm (with-store/maybe): Fix typo.
</span></span></td><td>Julien Lepiller</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2022-08-30 12:37:19 -0400'>2022-08-30</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/services/version-control.scm?id=9b5b1dde32b9526cd39b51978209ba3e61b6c785'>services: gitolite: Relax permissions on service user home directory.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Fixes https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56444

* gnu/services/version-control.scm (gitolite-activation): Modify permissions
  on home directory so that git group has read access.

Reported-by: Evgeny Pisemsky &lt;evgeny@pisemsky.com&gt;

Experienced by David Thompson for years, wondering what was wrong. Thanks for
finding the root cause, Evgeny! :)
</span></span></td><td>David Thompson</td></tr>