Last-Modified: 2023-03-30T16:08:55+01:00


SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Bruno Victal


                                        Guix Tasks


Tasks considered “low-hanging fruit” / good first issues.


Documentation
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* define-configuration
  * Instead of exhaustively listing all the possible combinations of the valid forms,
  indicate the _mandatory_ “fields” that must be present and then describe the _optional_
  “fields”/literals that can follow (such as: serializer, empty-serializer, sanitizer, ...)

* Dovecot, etc. documentation sync and regeneration for updated style.


Packages
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* A custom build-system for nginx modules.
  Links:
    * https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-12/msg00302.html
    * https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-01/msg00110.html

* Saxon-HE (12) <https://github.com/Saxonica/Saxon-HE>

* Bitwarden

* Ghidra

* Libreswan

Services
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* btrfs-scrub
* hdparm (for configuring parameters like SCT Error Recovery Control)
* usbip server + client
* i2pd
* snowflake
* stunnel

* Abstraction for running certain services via gunicorn (such as radicale)

* activation-service-type cleanup


Internals
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* Macro that generates tests for “privilege drop” performed by some services, such as mympd,
mpd, nginx, etc.

* define-record-type*
  * (parent ...) support
  * (documentation ...) support

* configuration->documentation should format lists with a leading '.

* (gnu/system/vm.scm) Port forwardings are TCP only, allow for UDP as well.

* Replace deprecated po4a-translate with po4a.
  """""""""""""""
  …
  PO4A doc/contributing.fr.texi
  PO4A doc/contributing.pt_BR.texi
  po4a-translate is deprecated. The unified po4a(1) program is more convenient and less error prone.
  po4a-translate is deprecated. The unified po4a(1) program is more convenient and less error prone.
  …
  """""""""""""""


* Investigate the following warnings:
  """""""""""""""
  …
  [ 14%] GUILEC   guix/narinfo.go
  [ 14%] GUILEC   guix/derivations.go
  guix/derivations.scm:1231:4: warning: 'build-expression->derivation' is deprecated, use 'gexp->derivation' instead
  guix/derivations.scm:1270:2: warning: possibly unbound variable `gexp->derivation'
  [ 14%] GUILEC   guix/grafts.go
  …
  [ 88%] GUILEC   gnu/services/getmail.go
  WARNING: (gnu services getmail): imported module (gnu services) overrides core binding `delete'
  …
  [ 90%] GUILEC   gnu/system/install.go
  WARNING: Use of `load' in declarative module (gnu system install).  Add #:declarative? #f to your define-module invocation.
  [ 90%] GUILEC   gnu/system/keyboard.go
  …
  """""""""""""""


Miscellaneous
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* Shell auto-completions
  * shepherd [herd]
  * mcron



Wishlist
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* Near-seamless Opportunistic IPSec support
  * https://libreswan.org/wiki/HOWTO:_Opportunistic_IPsec_using_LetsEncrypt
  * https://libreswan.org/wiki/HOWTO:_Opportunistic_IPsec