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| Charlie Zhang | You might want to contact fricklerhandwerk. | 11:33:40 |
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| Omoruyi Emmanuel | Hello everyone. I am Emmanuel. Although I'm currently in a coding bootcamp learning Cloud Computing and DevOps, I'm new to open source. I've heard a lot of good things about NixOS, and I'm slowly making the switch over.
I pored through the 2026 ideas, and I've decided to submit my proposal for Review Nixpkgs PRs as it fits my desire to learn the project's operation, and at the same time, I can improve my knowledge in Nix and get started contributing to open source.
However, I may need some pointers regarding what the proposal structure should look like for Review Nixpkgs PRs. | 11:49:09 |
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| 37h4n | Hello! I'm Ethan Reece. I'm currently an MS CS student at UT Dallas, and I love to hack around with Nix configurations. I have a project that extends Devenv with automatic editor/AI integrations for LSP/formatters. I also have a set of extendable Nix configurations for myself that focuses on compartmentalization, and I recently started adding security hardening to the NixOS-specific portions, focusing on nix-mineral, lanzaboote, and impermanence modules and ideas from SecureBlue. In doing this, I've dug around Nixpkgs some, submitted update requests, applied PRs to my configs to fix broken packages, and fixed a nix-your-shell bug involving Nushell.
I came across GSoC recently and am also looking for more ways to get involved in open source projects that other people use (and am looking for Nix-related jobs as well). Seeing the ideas list, Review Nixpkgs PRs looks like something I could get involved in, and I'm also interested in ideas related to my development environment work in the project I mentioned above. I also find security interesting as well as security-focused OSes like Genode, which someone worked on a Nix integration for and I think is a cool idea.
Considering that I'm new to GSoC (and contributing in general), does anyone have any guidence or recommendations for next steps?
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 Kaku | Hi, I’m interested in the “Improved release notes for Nixpkgs” GSoC project.
Could someone tell me who the mentor is?
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 @not-jack:matrix.org | Hey all, I'm Jack. I'm a computing science student from Utrecht University, and have been using nixos on multiple devices for around a year now. I maintain a few packages and services, but would like to sink my teeth in to something more technically challenging/involved, e.g. compiler, bootup, etc... | 10:56:24 |
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 Robert Hensing (roberth) | The review idea is a bit unorthodox if Google were to judge it by its title. I'd recommend to give it a twist, pick a particular set of packages, or a particular approach, perhaps automation. | 22:34:50 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | We don't have a designated mentor for this, but someone can still jump in. Knowing a mentor is not a requirement for submitting a proposal to GSoC | 22:36:28 |
| Omoruyi Emmanuel | Omoruyi Osakue: Could you tell me who the mentor is Review Nixpkgs PRs or am I too late? | 22:42:22 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | We don't have a designated mentor for this yet, but otoh this is our main activity so I don't think that should deter you | 23:04:29 |
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| Clumsily6239 | Hi all,
I'm looking into the GSoC project for 'SBOM Accuracy and PURL Integration for Nixpkgs'. I noticed the mentor field is currently open on the ideas list, does anyone know who is the current mentor? I was reviewing the prior efforts and wanted to ask a few questions. | 09:44:38 |
| Clumsily6239 | * Hi all,
I'm looking into the GSoC project for 'SBOM Accuracy and PURL Integration for Nixpkgs'. I noticed the mentor field is currently open on the ideas list, does anyone know who is the mentor? I was reviewing the prior efforts and wanted to ask a few questions. | 09:44:47 |
 fricklerhandwerk | This is the right place to ask those questions, the SBOM team will be delighted to help you out: https://matrix.to/#/#nixpkgs-sbom:matrix.org | 10:00:12 |
| Clumsily6239 | Oh, ty. | 10:03:26 |
| Clumsily6239 | Can we also propose our own ideas? Is that allowed? | 10:30:27 |
| @not-jack:matrix.org | Yea | 10:59:07 |
| Clumsily6239 | I was looking at the list of ideas for GSoC, and came across the "Enhanced Patch Information Extraction" project.
I read through the referenced issue, and there doesn’t seem to be a clearly enforced format for how patches are named or described, apart from some CVE-related patches including identifiers.
I wanted to better understand what the intended goal of this project is, whether the focus is on standardizing how patches are described, extracting structured metadata from existing patches for downstream tools, or a combination of both. | 11:45:12 |
