Re: Call for contribution to the Guix infrastructure

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello Carlo,

Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> skribis:

> On Fri, May 24 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>   • Day-to-day system administration
>>
>>     We’re also looking for people who’d be willing to have SSH access to
>>     some of the infrastructure to help with day-to-day maintenance:
>>     restarting a build, restarting the occasional service that has gone
>>     wild (that can happen :-)), reconfiguring/upgrading a machine,
>>     rebooting, etc.
>
> I think I could help with this. I can't guarantee that I'll always be
> available, but I'm able and willing to help where I can.

[...]

> My timezone has generally made it hard for me to be actively involved in
> real-time conversations about Guix (I'm in Australia), so hopefully that
> wouldn't be too much of an impediment here. It might even be an asset,
> if you don't already have people available in this timezone.

Excellent.  If you’re fine with this, I/we can add you to the
guix-sysadmin mailing list, which is private (we can discuss
non-security-sensitive issues such as bugs in infra software here, of
course).

A sample of the kind of tasks we’ve had in recent days: ci.guix needing
close monitoring to ensure it smoothly processes builds, redeployment
needed because i586-gnu builders of ci.guix went unavailable due to
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/69401> (trying to do that currently),
qa.guix throwing exceptions for some issues.

Often reporting an issue of that sort on IRC is already one step towards
a solution.

> I'm not sure if I count as a "known" member of the community, but I have
> been around the periphery for a while. My earliest commit that made it
> into Guix is from 2016, and I made it to the Guix day in 2018. I have
> been running my own personal infrastructure primarily on Guix since at
> least 2018.

You definitely count as a “known member”.  :-)

Thanks for volunteering!

Ludo’.