Hello, my name is Chris and I'm an open source Rust developer. This is my third year writing software, and second year using Nix/NixOS for personal and work use. Until 2021 I was a full time music instructor, I learned entirely via online resources and have been working on language compilers and blockchain networks for about 2 years now. I'm interested in taking on a small to medium sized task for GSoC, and the proposals that interest me the most are nixpkgs library networking functions and Nix Internals: Use std::filesystem::path for Path. I also have a personal Nix project I'm working on, though I feel that it's more of a community project than something that would make for a good proposal. Nonetheless, it's called mynixui (My Nix UI), and it aims to give those developing their own desktop environments (or rices) robust scripts written in rust, and allow users to quickly and seamlessly switch between different desktop interfaces. It's currently a flake for convenience, though I could see it being integrated with home-manager later on. Writing Nix is extremely exciting to me, and I've also been using it to package and cross compile binaries for work using crane, lately.

I'm happy to take on any challenge, and I would greatly appreciate the mentorship.

In reply to @siddhant_codes:matrix.org
no problem. I have posted a draft proposal on github (https://github.com/siddhantk232/nix_gsoc) and created a post on discourse (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/request-for-review-of-my-gsoc24-proposal/41721).

In reply to @Ericson2314:matrix.org
it is normal to have e.g. a long-running PR, and then be splitting things out as they are ready for review, for example

In reply to @siddhant_codes:matrix.org
thanks! I'll mention this in my proposal to make it sound more concrete as I haven't written anything about contribution strategy.
Please let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to add/change in the proposal. I'll finish the remaining sections and submit it to google by this weekend.

In reply to @Ericson2314:matrix.org
the idea is that one one hand, we can't really be sure what approach is going to work best, so there just is some fundamental uncertainty. However, on the other hand, we can commit to getting smaller PRs merged throughout

In reply to @Ericson2314:matrix.org
indeed, some of then perhaps should stay std::string because they are for CanonPath

I'd have to do some more reading of the source to understand where and how CanonPath is used but I think I generally got the idea. CanonPath is for nix's view of paths and we want to use std::filesystem::path only where we interact with the real fs so that it's portable on unix and windows.

Thanks for clarifying

In reply to @eureka-cpu:matrix.org

Hello, my name is Chris and I'm an open source Rust developer. This is my third year writing software, and second year using Nix/NixOS for personal and work use. Until 2021 I was a full time music instructor, I learned entirely via online resources and have been working on language compilers and blockchain networks for about 2 years now. I'm interested in taking on a small to medium sized task for GSoC, and the proposals that interest me the most are nixpkgs library networking functions and Nix Internals: Use std::filesystem::path for Path. I also have a personal Nix project I'm working on, though I feel that it's more of a community project than something that would make for a good proposal. Nonetheless, it's called mynixui (My Nix UI), and it aims to give those developing their own desktop environments (or rices) robust scripts written in rust, and allow users to quickly and seamlessly switch between different desktop interfaces. It's currently a flake for convenience, though I could see it being integrated with home-manager later on. Writing Nix is extremely exciting to me, and I've also been using it to package and cross compile binaries for work using crane, lately.

I'm happy to take on any challenge, and I would greatly appreciate the mentorship.

In reply to @eureka-cpu:matrix.org

Hello, my name is Chris and I'm an open source Rust developer. This is my third year writing software, and second year using Nix/NixOS for personal and work use. Until 2021 I was a full time music instructor, I learned entirely via online resources and have been working on language compilers and blockchain networks for about 2 years now. I'm interested in taking on a small to medium sized task for GSoC, and the proposals that interest me the most are nixpkgs library networking functions and Nix Internals: Use std::filesystem::path for Path. I also have a personal Nix project I'm working on, though I feel that it's more of a community project than something that would make for a good proposal. Nonetheless, it's called mynixui (My Nix UI), and it aims to give those developing their own desktop environments (or rices) robust scripts written in rust, and allow users to quickly and seamlessly switch between different desktop interfaces. It's currently a flake for convenience, though I could see it being integrated with home-manager later on. Writing Nix is extremely exciting to me, and I've also been using it to package and cross compile binaries for work using crane, lately.

I'm happy to take on any challenge, and I would greatly appreciate the mentorship.

In reply to @eureka-cpu:matrix.org
In my application, can I apply for both, or only one or the other?

IHi everyone! I'm Rafael Girão from Portugal (rafaelsgirao on GitHub), and I'm finishing a Bsc. in Computer Science & Engineering @ Técnico Lisboa this spring.

I've been daily driving NixOS for almost two years now and I really enjoy tinkering with my Nix(OS) systems. While I'm a new contributor to nixpkgs (I only have one contribution so far: a PR which is currently work in progress :slight_smile:), I have a personal flake with contains (among other things) 15 packages I've created for personal use, and have some other software I packaged spread throughout other repositories.

Although I'm interested in the nixpkgs pnpm tooling idea, since it's a project I stumbled upon when I attempted to package Ferdium from source instead of using a .deb as it's done at the moment; I also I have an idea proposal of my own.

Are ideas outside the list something being considered? If so, who should I talk to about my own idea proposal?

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone! I'm Rafael Girão from Portugal (rafaelsgirao on GitHub), and I'm finishing a Bsc. in Computer Science & Engineering @ Técnico Lisboa this spring.

I've been daily driving NixOS for almost two years now and I really enjoy tinkering with my Nix(OS) systems. While I'm a new contributor to nixpkgs (I only have one contribution so far: a PR which is currently work in progress :slight_smile:), I have a personal flake with contains (among other things) 15 packages I've created for personal use, and have some other software I packaged spread throughout other repositories.

Although I'm interested in the nixpkgs pnpm tooling idea, since it's a project I stumbled upon when I attempted to package Ferdium from source instead of using a .deb as it's done at the moment; I also I have an idea proposal of my own.

Are ideas outside the list something being considered? If so, who should I talk to about my own idea proposal?

Thanks in advance!

Are ideas outside the list something being considered? If so, who should I talk to about my own idea proposal?

Yes. Just post it here or open a issue in https://github.com/NixOS/GSoC/issues/ and if it's a good idea we can try to find a potential mentor.