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

[Matthias Beyer]

This sounds also really interesting.

As far as I can tell, IPFS wouldn't protect me against malformed
packages, so there is still the trust issue.

Anyways, binary cache on a per-user basis (where I only have to trust
myself) would be a nice thing for the first step.

Will note that as an idea!

On 29-10-2015 11:16:51, Domen Kožar wrote:
> 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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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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