Dear guix community,
I started using Guix just under 4 weeks ago (bootstrapped with `guix
system init`). It was challenging and fun and it feels like I finally
found an OS that is DIY, scalable and encourages tinkering (I love `guix
shell`).
The OS, the package manager has so, soo much to love and inspired me to
decide this project is worth my time to hopefully improve and build with
others.
The experience from my first PR`s with package updates is, that I
noticed almost all of them getting some activity, but would have
expected things like browser updates that contain fixes for public CVE's
to be merged quicker (e.g. https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/11882,
there is also https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/11614 by madage
(thank you btw)).
In general I noticed what seemed to me quite a few open PR's some of
them aging slowly day by day. On the one hand this is great as many
others seem to feel about guix similar to me.
On the other hand I think guix is such a great foundation that it
saddens me that updates are not merged within a timeframe of say 1-2
days and to see all of this energy pile up as backlog.
I hope this does not come across as criticism. This is explicitly a
newcomers perspective that comes from a fairly large fast moving distro,
where I didn't contribute (and rarely felt motivated/compelled to do
so).
Really what I am curious about is this:
* Do you guys in general share the value of up to date software?
* If yes, is there anything I as a newcomer could do to help us achieve
this shared value?
* What are your thoughts on this? Do I maybe have the wrong
expectations?
Thank you guys for building stuff for others to share and use!
Kind regards,
Jo
