| 17 Mar 2024 |
 FPenjoyer | Should I consider reaching out to @Ericson2314, a potential mentor for the Nix Internals: Use std::filesystem::path for Path project, to seek their feedback on my GSoC proposal before submission? I can't find him on this channel. | 17:19:13 |
| 18 Mar 2024 |
|  @sinan:sinanmohd.com joined the room. | 01:49:48 |
|  Giovanni Torelli joined the room. | 11:21:30 |
| Giovanni Torelli | Hello everyone. My name is Giovanni Torelli and I'm a beginner programmer that loves software development, I want to be a gsoc contributor and I would love to have some advice about how I could be chosen. Thanks in advance | 11:23:11 |
| Giovanni Torelli | I intend to contribute on the improvement of JSON format as I think that it's the project that I'm more qualified for now. I'm trying to become a Linux power user but I'm just at the beginning of this journey as I'm learning more about dot files and using vim as my primary text editor. | 11:26:58 |
| Giovanni Torelli | I read about the issues involving the need to merge ParsedDerivation into BasicDerivation and improve the JSON formatting, but I also would like a more detailed description about the issue if possible. I would be very grateful if someone could provide more detail | 11:46:10 |
| Giovanni Torelli | * I read about the issues involving the need to merge ParsedDerivation into BasicDerivation and improve the JSON formatting, but I also would like a more detailed description about the issue if possible. I would be very grateful if someone could provide more detail so I could prepare myself for the submission | 11:46:29 |
| @sinan:sinanmohd.com | Hi everyone I am sinan, I'm a NixOS maintainer and 3rd year undergrad student,
I got into Nix and NixOS by maintaining my home server, it acts as everything
from my router and authoritative DNS server to my mail and matrix server, i
don't think it would be as to fun maintain it without NixOS reproducibility,
immutability, and declarative nature, It's what got me interested in Nix and NixOS.
I also like to use flakes for my projects so I can reproduce my dev environment
anywhere | 16:44:01 |
| @sinan:sinanmohd.com | I'm interested in Nixpkgs analytics: nixpkgs-review with a time-budget and
adding nixpkgs library networking functions, it will directly help me as I'm
running NixOS on my PC and servers I maintain,
I'd also like to improve support for pppd and stalwart mail (something like
simple-nixos-mailserver, but fully upstreamed), as of now I'm using an out of
tree module for both
I'm comfortable with c, go, nix, /bin/sh, python, oop, and lua. I'm not as good
with python, but I've written python libraries for a networking project before.
| 16:45:00 |
 Janik (they/them) | @room Project applications opened today, feel free to hand yours in via the GSoC portal. | 19:55:09 |
| Janik (they/them) | I'm sorry to everyone who didn't get their draft reviewed in time, the last few days were packed with exiting stuff in the nix community like NixCon NA so a lot of mentors were probably busy with that. | 19:55:49 |
| Janik (they/them) | * I'm sorry for everyone who didn't get their draft reviewed in time, the last few days were packed with exiting stuff in the nix community like NixCon NA so a lot of mentors were probably busy with that. | 19:55:55 |
| Janik (they/them) | In reply to @siddhant_codes:matrix.org
Should I consider reaching out to @Ericson2314, a potential mentor for the Nix Internals: Use std::filesystem::path for Path project, to seek their feedback on my GSoC proposal before submission? I can't find him on this channel. yes, but afaik he ist still a bit tired because of jetlag after nixcon na. | 20:07:59 |
| Janik (they/them) | In reply to @torelli:matrix.org
Hello everyone. My name is Giovanni Torelli and I'm a beginner programmer that loves software development, I want to be a gsoc contributor and I would love to have some advice about how I could be chosen. Thanks in advance First you should select a idea from https://github.com/NixOS/GSoC/tree/main/ideas/2024.md and then read about related information and ask the potential mentor a few questions. | 20:09:15 |
| Janik (they/them) | In reply to @sinan:sinanmohd.com
I'm interested in Nixpkgs analytics: nixpkgs-review with a time-budget and
adding nixpkgs library networking functions, it will directly help me as I'm
running NixOS on my PC and servers I maintain,
I'd also like to improve support for pppd and stalwart mail (something like
simple-nixos-mailserver, but fully upstreamed), as of now I'm using an out of
tree module for both
I'm comfortable with c, go, nix, /bin/sh, python, oop, and lua. I'm not as good
with python, but I've written python libraries for a networking project before.
cc SomeoneSerge (hash-versioned python modules when) | 20:09:23 |
 yoctocell |
Hello, I am interested in the Nixpkgs networking project. I am an CS undergraduate and have been using NixOS for the last three years or so, so I am quite familiar with Nix. I haven't programmed much with Nix, but I already know Haskell and Lisp, and functional programming is something I enjoy a lot. Since I am taking a networking course this semester, it would be great if I could apply the some things I learned to a real-world project like Nixpkgs. | 21:15:15 |
| yoctocell | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/258250 looks like a good starting point. I am supposed to submit a proposal through the gsoc website directly to apply for the project? | 21:15:50 |
| Janik (they/them) | In reply to @yoctocell:matrix.org
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/258250 looks like a good starting point. I am supposed to submit a proposal through the gsoc website directly to apply for the project? Yes, but feel free to dm me with a draft beforehand. | 21:16:24 |
|  Eric joined the room. | 22:10:32 |
