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- -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-
- #+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
- Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
- Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
- are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
- notice and this notice are preserved.
- 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
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