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-#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
-
-Copyright © 2012, 2013 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
- notice and this notice are preserved.
-
-The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:
-
- - to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
- Guile;
-
- - to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
- GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
- promotion and tight integration of GNU components.
-
-This documents lists tentative milestones toward these goals.
-
-
-* 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
+-*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-
+
+#+TITLE: Tentative GNU Guix Road Map
+
+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
+ notice and this notice are preserved.
+
+The goals of the GNU Guix project are two-fold:
+
+ - to build a purely functional package manager, based on Nix and
+ Guile;
+
+ - to use it to build a practical 100% free software distribution of
+ GNU/Linux and possibly other GNU variants, with a focus on the
+ promotion and tight integration of GNU components–the GNU system.
+
+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 shepherd integration
+ + monitor network interfaces and start/stop events based on that
+ + include a DHCP client written in Scheme
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