Mention GNU Guix in project ideas.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn
index 23304f6b..d80efe37 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
 id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -36,15 +36,19 @@ sum of packages installed at a certain moment; it doesn't matter how this state
 came about.  There are no global databases of any kind.  (Some things might
 require caching for better performance, but this must happen transparently.)
 
-The core of this approach is formed by [[hurd/translator/stowfs]], which
-creates a traditional Unix directory structure from all the files in the
-individual package directories.  But this only handles the lowest level of
-package management.  Additional mechanisms are necessary to handle stuff like
-dependencies on other packages.
+The core of this approach is formed by [[hurd/translator/stowfs]].
+[Guix](http://www.gnu.org/software/guix), GNU's package manager,
+installs each package in its own directory.  Each user has a
+*profile*, which is the union of some of these packages.  On
+GNU/Linux, this union is implemented as a symlink tree; on GNU/Hurd,
+*stowfs* would offer a more elegant solution.  Stowfs creates a traditional
+Unix directory structure from all the files in the individual package
+directories.  This handles the lowest level of package
+management.
 
-The goal of this task is to create these mechanisms.
+The goal of this task is to exploit Hurd features in GNU Guix.
 
-Possible mentors: Ben Asselstine (bing)
+Possible mentors: Ludovic Courtès, Ben Asselstine (bing)
 
 Exercise: Make some improvement to any of the existing Hurd translators.
 Especially those in [hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) are often
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn
index d9f1a9e1..13cc6cd1 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
 id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ software packages, GNU/Linux distributions usually come with a package manager,
 which keeps track of all files upon installation/removal in some kind of
 central database.
 
-An alternative approach is the one implemented by GNU Stow: each package is
+An alternative approach is the one implemented by GNU Stow and GNU Guix: each package is
 actually installed in a private directory tree.  The actual standard directory
 structure is then created by collecting the individual files from all the
 packages, and presenting them in the common `/bin`, `/lib`, etc. locations.
 
-While the normal Stow package (for traditional UNIX systems) uses symlinks to
+While the normal Stow or Guix package (for traditional UNIX systems) uses symlinks to
 the actual files, updated on installation/deinstallation events, the Hurd
 [[hurd/translator]] mechanism allows a much more elegant solution:
 [[hurd/translator/stowfs]] (which is actually a special mode of