| 5 Mar 2026 |
 ATrancendentBeing | * Hi everyone, Re=introducing myself I'm Bhuvan, a developer who's been contributing to the Nix Security Tracker over the past few months working on things like batching activity log queries, structured rejection reasons, the CVE deduplication migration, and a few bug fixes along the way.I'm planning to apply for GSoC 2026 with a focus on improving the tracker particularly around matching quality (version constraint evaluation) and data storage efficiency. I've been going through the codebase and open issues to get a better feel for where I can add the most value.
I'd love to connect with @fricklerhandwerk if possible would really appreciate any guidance on shaping the proposal in the right direction. Happy to share what I have in mind :) | 13:45:24 |
| ATrancendentBeing | * Hi everyone, Re=introducing myself I'm Bhuvan, a developer who's been contributing to the Nix Security Tracker over the past few days working on things like batching activity log queries, structured rejection reasons, the CVE deduplication migration, and a few bug fixes along the way.I'm planning to apply for GSoC 2026 with a focus on improving the tracker particularly around matching quality (version constraint evaluation) and data storage efficiency. I've been going through the codebase and open issues to get a better feel for where I can add the most value.
I'd love to connect with @fricklerhandwerk if possible would really appreciate any guidance on shaping the proposal in the right direction. Happy to share what I have in mind :) | 14:26:58 |
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 vivekanandan_ks | A lot of students this year. Great to see.🤝 | 19:01:22 |
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| prescientmoon | Hi!
My name's Raf, and I'm currently studying for a masters in mathematics. I've been using Nix to manage my devices (laptops and self hosted infrastructure) for the past 5-6 years. I just came across the Discourse post about GSOC, and skimmed through the proposals. My attention was initially grabbed by the modular service project, although it seems other people have already talked about it / concerns have been raised a few messages above, so I'll see what else sounds interesting. | 11:22:21 |
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| prescientmoon | Hi! I was talking to lassulus about a possible project proposal I'd be interested in. Is the process of submitting such a proposal simply a matter of opening a PR to the nixos GSOC repo? | 18:54:27 |
 K900 | You can also just post it here | 19:08:33 |
| prescientmoon | I think lassulus has the actual details, but the idea was for me to work on the vars PR (#370444) | 19:15:31 |
 infinisil | Nah, you'll need to use google's online form when submissions open. The repo doesn't track anything other than a list of ideas, not concrete proposals | 20:31:06 |
| infinisil | * | 20:31:26 |
 Lisanna | will I as the listed mentor need to take any action for my project idea to be submitted if it's already on the ideas list (not draft)? | 20:43:42 |
| K900 | You will still need to submit | 20:48:22 |
| K900 | Either the mentor or the mentee | 20:48:29 |
| Lisanna | do I already have to have found a participant to submit the proposal? | 20:55:54 |
| Lisanna | or will it go on a central list somewhere that others can find and claim from | 20:56:22 |
| K900 | You have time until the submission deadline to find a participant | 20:58:26 |
| infinisil | Lisanna You can reach out to the people that have shown up here, to see if anybody is interested in submitting a concrete proposal for your idea, and then work with them to figure out the details :)
But ultimately it's the contributer who has to submit the proposal using google's form | 20:59:15 |
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