Contribution ideas

Spectrum is currently under heavy development. This means there are a lot of opportunities for contribution, but it can be difficult to figure out where to start, especially since there's not a complete system available to experiment with yet.

Here are some ideas for contributions, roughly ordered by priority. If working on any of these appeals to you, even if you don't understand all the parts involved, we'd be happy to provide mentorship and support. Just reach out on IRC or email devel@spectrum-os.org.

This list is nowhere near exhaustive. If there's anything else you're interested in working on, or just nothing on this list appeals to you or fits your skillset, get in touch, and we can advise you on how you might be able to help out.

1. nixpkgs #140851: ZFS kernel modules have ballooned in size. This is blocking updating the server hosting the Spectrum website, mailing lists, etc.
2. nixpkgs #134984: cryptsetup cannot be built statically. This would let us massively reduce the size of Spectrum's initramfs. For Spectrum, we only need the veritysetup program from that package at the moment, so it's okay for us if other features have to be disabled to make static linking work.

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