DeveloperWiki:Google Summer of Code

The Arch Linux development team is considering to participate this year in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), here is a draft on what areas we are needing improvements.

The main idea here is to help the development of these tools, improving it, making patches and fixing bugs for now.

プロジェクトのアイデア

• Aurweb rewrite in Python
• PKGBUILD Language server (implement a Language Server Protocol)
• Signing enclave system -https://github.com/archlinux/signstar
• Package rebuilder list - https://github.com/archlinux/rebuilder
• Package version crawler - https://github.com/archlinux/sandcrawler
• Dbscripts rewrite in Python (svn2git) - https://github.com/archlinux/arch-repo-management
• Arch Linux Installer (arch-installer) - https://github.com/kgizdov/arch-installer

Pacman 関連のアイデア

• adding sync db write into libalpm, and use that to reimplement repo-add/repo-remove
• --print-format should work for many, many more options
• iterator interface for databases
• getting pacman to compile in C++ and switching to some STL
• parallel computations

メンターの候補

• AUR - Lukas
• Archweb - Jelle
• Pacman - Allan
• arch-installer - Konstantin