Re: Teams

[indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>]

FWIW,

I just want to commend whoever is packaging TexLive.

My last update covered March of this year - no mean feat given that it 
is a 3.4GB package aggregate.

(sorry I cant do more direct contributions for Guix atm, looking forward 
to such an honour eventually)

On 04-06-2022 14:07, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> this is not a new idea[1]: let’s add a page to the website that lists 
> teams
> and a mail alias for each of the teams.
> 
> For example, the “R team” consists of people familiar with how R
> packaging works in Guix, e.g. Simon and myself.  There would be an 
> alias
> “guix-team-r@gnu.org”.  People with questions about R in Guix could
> write an email to that alias.
> 
> Mumi could also send email to guix-team-r@gnu.org to remind them about
> patches relating to R / Bioconductor / CRAN, etc.
> 
> Maintainers could write to these teams before releases to ask if there
> are any obstacles to a release.
> 
> As a first step I’d suggest collecting teams, setting up the email
> aliases, and updating the website to show the existing teams.  Here’s
> a draft of three teams:
> 
> * R team
> Simon Tournier
> Ricardo Wurmus
> 
> * Java team
> Julien Lepiller
> 
> * Rust team
> Efraim Flashner
> Aleksandr Vityazev
> Arun Isaac
> John Soo
> Maxim Cournoyer
> Nicolas Goaziou
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
> 
> What do you think?

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