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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
Update mailmap.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Add entry for Tomas Volf.

Change-Id: I0a8b43b3b7f71c3020f96118adcbad8937a290fb
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Othacehe &lt;othacehe@gnu.org&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Tomas Volf</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2023-08-16 22:22:06 +0200'>2023-08-16</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=fce924708c31c09a1b438ae7e8b83d39c492be9a'>Update email addresses for Juliana Sims.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Add an entry for Juliana.
* gnu/packages/admin.scm, gnu/packages/audio.scm,
gnu/packages/build-tools.scm, gnu/packages/scheme.scm: Update Juliana's email.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès &lt;ludo@gnu.org&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Juliana Sims</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2022-01-11 14:48:00 -0500'>2022-01-11</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=7f779286df7e8636d901f4734501902cc934a72f'>Update mailmap.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Add entry for Zheng Junjie.
</span></span></td><td>Leo Famulari</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-11-06 16:03:43 +0100'>2021-11-06</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=567c4f4495fd1681bc6bd1ca3e9d1a87e120ac61'>Update mailmap and copyright assignments for Liliana Marie Prikler.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Use full names everywhere.

* .mailmap: Use full name for Liliana Marie Prikler.
* gnu/packages/zig.scm: Likewise.
</span></span></td><td>Liliana Marie Prikler</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-09-06 12:15:57 +0200'>2021-09-06</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=7158f8e4e9f81dbe004789018dcf06a5fe87d602'>Update mailmap.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Add entry for Liliana Marie Prikler.
</span></span></td><td>Liliana Marie Prikler</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-09-04 12:25:17 +0200'>2021-09-04</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=1fd0bf60ea261fac426052386029ead0ac68cad1'>Update mailmap.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Alias all my contributions to the same identity.
</span></span></td><td>Marius Bakke</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-07-27 12:34:56 -0400'>2021-07-27</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=c0e6e8d25e3750a35bebc80469ee86e7826bd769'>Update mailmap.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Add entry for Christine Lemmer-Webber.
</span></span></td><td>Leo Famulari</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-07-08 09:48:22 +0200'>2021-07-08</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=0a04c25482c4d848a6a29711fccf5682319e26aa'>mailmap: Update entries for Matthew James Kraai.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Change name for Matthew James Kraai.
* gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm, gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm,
gnu/packages/rust.scm: Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Goaziou &lt;mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr&gt;
</span></span></td><td>Matthew James Kraai</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-06-23 22:29:23 -0500'>2021-06-23</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=6d388103a4ed8f14f1ac6ac7a2ff22c5fa6b8cd4'>gnu: Add Sollya.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/algebra.scm (sollya): New variable.
* .mailmap: Adjust "proper email" for `git commit`.
</span></span></td><td>Eric Bavier</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-04-21 18:02:27 -0400'>2021-04-21</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/.mailmap?id=449844474da86b5f10a4c5e4f1744e1e3a716d6e'>Update email address for Kei.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* .mailmap: Remove obsolete email for Kei.
</span></span></td><td>Kei Kebreau</td></tr>