Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > I’m happy to announce that Ricardo Wurmus has just been appointed by the > GNU overseers to join me as co-maintainer of GNUGuix. > > Ricardo is a long-time free software activist and has been making > significant contributions to Guix for the most part of its young history > in terms of code, reviews, and talks. He has deployed Guix on the > bioinformatics clusters of his workplace and trained his co-workers. He > undoubtedly has all the technical and social skills I would expect for > the job. Please welcome him warmly! :-) > > I don’t like to think in terms of titles, and it’s important to me that > everyone can contribute to every aspect of the project in their > capacity, and that decision-making remains consensus-based. So I asked > myself what it means to have a maintainer hat. I think it boils down to > three duties: safeguarding the project (making sure we remain true to > our goals, ensure our code of conduct is honored and GNU policies are > followed), giving a direction and providing guidance (paying attention > to the release schedule, not losing track of priorities, being “present” > and aware of ongoing developments), and overseeing the infrastructure > and administrative things (build farm, FTP uploads, mailing list admin, > etc.) Anyone can work on these tasks, but presumably maintainers have > “the big picture”. > > Thank you for joining, Ricardo! > > Ludo’.
Late to join in, but congrats! A great fit in all regards! :)
