[Nix-dev] Google Summer of Code 2015

[Daniel Peebles]

It seems like distributed binary trust would be greatly facilitated by
an intensional store. Anyone interested in reviving that?

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:34 PM, stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Distributed Hydra build support
>
> NixOS already has a very impressive track record in delivering quality
> reproducible services via AWS and other cloud platforms. The secret
> sauce is NixOps, Nix and most importantly Hydra. Hydra is the heart
> and liver that keeps the packages cleanly building and circulating to
> all our users. Due to the high demand, Hydra often becomes a
> bottleneck. Our goal is to live off master branch, or at least live as
> close to master branch as possible. By living on master our community
> responds quickly to arising issues.
>
> We'll need a Hydra web-of-trust system, such that individuals whom
> have demonstrated trust may participate in running a Hydra build farm.
> Thus binaries from their Hydra node may be run on my system. Binaries
> are disseminated via Named Data Networking (NDN) to other NixOS/Nix
> users. This also allows us to implement a hierarchical Linux
> lieutenant model such that certain lieutenants are responsible for
> certain areas of code. Contributors then submit their patches to a
> lieutenant whom vets the build and merges into master. As soon as the
> merge happens those binaries are already available via NDN.
>
> Tasks
> * Ensure builds are exactly reproducible
> * Build NDN into Nix
> * Build a web-of-trust (key dissemination will be achieved via the NDN)
>
> Skills
> * Perl
> * C/C++
> * Familiarity with Named Data Networking
>
> Contacts
> Stewart Mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>
> <your name here> (eelco I think you're needed :-)
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