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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map -Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright @@ -17,56 +17,66 @@ The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold: GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the promotion and tight integration of GNU components–the GNU system. -This document lists milestones toward these goals. - -The timeline below was written at the end of Dec. 2012. An updated and more -detailed list of the remaining milestones was posted at -https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00120.html . - -The actual timeline was of course slightly different than initially -envisioned, and so was the feature set–things like cross-compilation support -and the MIPS64 port were not planned back then. See the news section at -http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ and ‘NEWS’ for the release history. - -* GNU Guix 0.1: Jan. 2013 (was: Dec. 2012) - -** basic package management facilities - -Including install, upgrade, remove, roll-back, and search. - -** self-contained user-land distribution - - - GNU/Linux-only, i686 and x86_64; optionally mipsel64 - - ~100 non-X11 packages - -** maybe integrated Nix code - -* GNU Guix 0.2: Feb./Mar. 2013 - -** improved package management features - - - user-environment hooks - - sophisticated handling of collisions when building a union (package - priorities, etc.) - -** [[file:TODO::*add%20guix-pull][guix-pull tool]] to quickly update Guix and GNU for normal users -** support for fetching pre-built binaries - - - this is known as the "binary-cache substituter" in Nix parlance - -** auto-update facility available for GNU packages - -** more packages - - - Xorg - - Emacs - -* GNU Guix 0.9: June 2013 - -** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro -** high-level OS configuration descriptive EDSL, à la NixOS - -* GNU Guix 1.0: September 2013 (GNU anniversary release) - -** bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro with non-GUI installer -** usable for a range of hacker-style uses +Since its inception, the project has gone a long way towards that goal. Below +is a list of items we want for version "1.0" of the Guix System Distribution. +There will be a few 0.x releases by then to give the new features more +exposure and testing. + +You're welcome to discuss this road map on guix-devel@gnu.org or #guix on +Freenode! + +* Features scheduled for 1.0 + + - larger & more robust build farm + + we need a powerful, dedicated front-end + + armhf-linux build machine + + leave Hydra in favor of 'guix publish' + custom code? + - more OS features + + LVM support + + encrypted root + + configurable name service switch + + whole-system unit tests, using VMs + - more service definitions + + mcron, postfix(?), wicd(?), etc. + - better 'guix system' + + 'reconfigure' should be able to restart non-essential services + + support for '--list-generations' and '--delete-generations' + - better 'guix pull' + + using Git to fetch the source instead of re-downloading everything + + build more quickly + + install new .mo files and new manual + + authentication of the Guix source: use signed commits? + - simplified, purely declarative service list in 'operating-system' + + it should be possible to inspect the service instance declarations and + settings + - GUIs + + integrate guix-web? + + guile-ncurses installer? + - 'guix publish'? + +* Features for later + + - complete GNU/Hurd port + - use content-based addressing when downloading substitutes to reduce + bandwidth requirements + + design nar v2 format where file contents are replaced by their hashes + + leverage /gnu/store/.links + - binary origin tracking + + keep signatures in sqlite.db + + preserve signatures upon import/export + - peer-to-peer distribution of updates (GNUnet?) + - more deterministic builds + + identify & fix sources of non-determinism in builds + + strengthen guix-daemon containers to further increase reproducibility + + trusting-trust: bootstrap with different tool chains + + fixed-point: re-bootstrap until fixed point is reached + + distributed validation: compare contents of store items with others + * resist a hydra.gnu.org compromise + - reproducible containers: mix of 'guix environment' and 'guix system vm' + - execute code with least privilege + + build containers like guix-daemon does + + provide a Plash-like interface in Bash + - daemon rewritten in Guile + - more dmd integration + + monitor network interfaces and start/stop events based on that + + include a DHCP client written in Scheme |