I'd be interested in helping. I'm about to (hopefully) have some guixotic training which should make me more useful.
Cheers Bruce On Thu, 10 Sept 2026, 17:21 Sergio Pastor Pérez, < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
