Hello, thanks for sharing your impressions and asking questions, which is a good occasion to question ourselves.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 04:49:53PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > This is explicitly a > newcomers perspective that comes from a fairly large fast moving distro I suppose that distro has the advantage of a much larger committer and more general contributor base! Personally I am rather surprised by how much we manage to do with how few people. But as Phong also remarked, our backlog is growing. That certainly means that PRs that people are less interested in might not be looked at at all. > 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. Project policy is to, even for trivial updates, wait for the CI bot to pick them up and build the dependent packages; once it has done so it replies to the PR on Codeberg. You can see the list of currently treated PRs and their status here: https://pulls.ci.guix.gnu.org/pull-requests If nothing happens in a week, committers may commit "at their own risk" nevertheless. In that case I usually make sure that the package itself and its direct dependents build ("guix build -P1"), which requires more work and thus some personal interest for the committer. Generally speaking, I think we are understaffed (like all volunteer organisations?) and particularly in need of people working on our infra- structure. Andreas
