Hello Guix, The last couple of months have been quite taxing on some of the more veteran members of the project. I'm writing this mail hoping to raise awareness in the community about the fact that this situation is unsustainable on the long term. In order to alleviate the load on some of these members, I would like to make a call for participation.
The project is in dire need of helping hands for its infrastructure. I would like to encourage the different members of our community to step up and participate on these infrastructure tasks. These tasks are a delicate matter, maintainers of the infrastructure have access to the machines that provide the substitutes of the project. I think that we should look for members that have proven their good will. This does not mean that these members need to be very knowledgeable about the current infrastructure or have commit access, I believe that we need people that are willing to learn and responsibly ensure that the different services are up and running. Familiarity with a Guix system is of course needed, but I'm not expecting these volunteers to debug complex technical errors; making sure that the different services are working properly and reporting issues if any error appears, would be of great help. The configuration of the Guix build farms is public, check it out here[1]. Additionally, the Guix manual has a nice section that should give you a good picture of where the Guix infrastructure needs your help[2]. [1] https://codeberg.org/guix/maintenance [2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Contributing-to-Guix_0027s-Infrastructure.html Best regards, Sergio
