[Nix-dev] Ideas for a NixOS-related bachelors thesis?

[Domen Kožar]

I'd go for: https://ipfs.io/ for binary substitues

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Joel Moberg <joel.moberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are some ideas presented for GSOC 2015 here
> https://nixos.org/wiki/GSOC_2015_ideas_list, my fave is P2P substitutes.
> This would mean it would be easy to share a cache and in some cases improve
> speed. Maybe not all features are needed for this project. For example, a
> interface where you can control what to seed can be added later on.
>
> In the end I think you should choose what you think will be most fun or
> the project that you think will make nix or nixos stronger. Good luck :)
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> for those who don't know me: I'm a 24 year old student at a university
>> of applied sciences in the black forest, germany. I'm in my 6th
>> Semester right now, the 7th (bachelors thesis) starting in
>> Feb/March 2016.
>>
>> I'm writing you people because there might be ideas for a
>> NixOS-related bachelors thesis?
>>
>> The constants are:
>>
>>     - Time: Something 4-month-is
>>
>>     - I don't want to do it at a company and I want to remain at my
>>       university for the time of the thesis, if possible. Also because
>>       I still want to attend some (voluntary) lessons there
>>
>>     - The topic should be NixOS related (personal interest), I have to
>>       convince my professor, though
>>
>>     - It should be programming-related
>>
>>     - I want to be able to create, I want to be able to be creative
>>
>>     - I want to be able to choose the language I program in, if
>>       possible. Candidates are:
>>
>>         - C (not unconditionally)
>>         - C++ (I'm not so good at it)
>>         - Ruby (I'm really good, I guess)
>>         - Bash (I'm okay at it)
>>
>>     - I can relate to the topic. I have no personal use for nixops and
>>       therefor never used it, so I won't have any relation to a
>>       nixops-related topic... I guess you understand what I mean here.
>>
>> I guess there are more things to this list and I just cannot remember
>> them right now.
>>
>> I already had an idea, where a prof told me that he would do this and
>> the scope is okay for a thesis at a university of applied sciences:
>>
>>     The idea was to create a source-to-source compiler and translate
>>     (for example) Archlinux pkgbuild files to nix expressions.
>>
>>     There would be three steps in complexity:
>>
>>         Simple: compile one package to one package. Just AST
>>         transformation, nix files have to be manually edited
>>         afterwards, eventually
>>
>>         Medium: compile a tree of packages (optionally find cyclic
>>         dependencies), nix files have to be manually edited
>>         afterwards, eventually
>>
>>         Complex/Large: compile a tree of packages, find cyclic
>>         dependencies, be able to build the expressions without further
>>         modification (the compiler resolves dependencies
>>         appropriately)
>>
>>     I guess I would do Simple and Medium, Large if I have too much
>>     time left.
>>
>>     I'd do this in Ruby and I'd use a parser generator for this and
>>     not write a parser on my own.
>>
>> This is considered a great amount of work for a bachelors thesis by
>> one of my profs, but he also things I'm a rather good student and I
>> can do this. I hope this gives you an idea of what amount is
>> appropriate.
>>
>>
>> So why this mail? Just a quick POLL to get some more ideas out of the
>> community. Maybe there are more interesting topics around, I don't
>> know.
>>
>> I will be at NixCon and almost certainly at 32C3, so we can discuss
>> there as well.
>>
>> --
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>> Kind regards,
>> Matthias Beyer
>>
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