Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Mark H Weaver]

Hello,

I need to take a break from Guix.  I'm not sure if I'll be back or not.
Someone else should take over maintenance of the Linux-libre and IceCat
packages, starting with the recent kernel updates for 4.4.192, 4.9.192,
4.14.143, 4.19.72, and 5.2.14.

      Thanks,
        Mark

Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I need to take a break from Guix.  I'm not sure if I'll be back or not.
> Someone else should take over maintenance of the Linux-libre and IceCat
> packages, starting with the recent kernel updates for 4.4.192, 4.9.192,
> 4.14.143, 4.19.72, and 5.2.14.
>
>       Thanks,
>         Mark

I am sad to read this; you will be dearly miss.  Thank you for the hard work
you poured into maintaining the Linux and IceCat packages, and for
shedding light on many difficult topics.

I hope to see you around,

Maxim

Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[John Soo]

Hi Mark,

Thank you so much for your work.  I second Maxim, it’s sad to see you go and hope to see you around. 

- John

Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Hi Mark,

Thanks for your message.  As discussed privately, I’m sad to see you go,
and as co-maintainer I can only say you’re welcome back anytime you want.

For years you’ve done a lot of work maintaining IceCat and Linux-libre,
but also improving other areas of Guix, always in a rigorous way.  I’m
very grateful for all these contributions and for your commitment.

Thank you and all the best for your future endeavors!

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> I need to take a break from Guix.  I'm not sure if I'll be back or not.
> Someone else should take over maintenance of the Linux-libre and IceCat
> packages, starting with the recent kernel updates for 4.4.192, 4.9.192,
> 4.14.143, 4.19.72, and 5.2.14.

Now’s the time to ensure our bus factor on these packages is greater
than one.  :-)

If you’re reading this and would like to help but aren’t sure how, let’s
discuss it here!  The more we distribute work among ourselves, the
better for each one of us and for all of us.

Ludo’.

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Re: Maintainer (no longer) needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Thanks for your message.  As discussed privately, I’m sad to see you go,
> and as co-maintainer I can only say you’re welcome back anytime you want.

Thank you Ludovic, and thanks to all for the kind words.  In light of
recent events at the FSF, I've had a change of heart and have decided to
return to the Guix project.  Although I welcome more help with these
packages, I will resume my previous role, doing what I can to keep our
Linux-libre and IceCat packages up-to-date, as soon as my commit rights
on Savannah are restored.

      Regards,
        Mark

Re: Maintainer (no longer) needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Hi Ludovic,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> Thanks for your message.  As discussed privately, I’m sad to see you go,
>> and as co-maintainer I can only say you’re welcome back anytime you want.
>
> Thank you Ludovic, and thanks to all for the kind words.  In light of
> recent events at the FSF, I've had a change of heart and have decided to
> return to the Guix project.  Although I welcome more help with these
> packages, I will resume my previous role, doing what I can to keep our
> Linux-libre and IceCat packages up-to-date, as soon as my commit rights
> on Savannah are restored.
>
>       Regards,
>         Mark

This is excellent news — welcome back! \o/

Alex

Re: Maintainer (no longer) needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Mike Gerwitz]

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 03:06:23 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Thank you Ludovic, and thanks to all for the kind words.  In light of
> recent events at the FSF, I've had a change of heart and have decided to
> return to the Guix project.  Although I welcome more help with these
> packages, I will resume my previous role, doing what I can to keep our
> Linux-libre and IceCat packages up-to-date, as soon as my commit rights
> on Savannah are restored.

This is wonderful news!

-- 
Mike Gerwitz

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Re: Maintainer (no longer) needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Mark!

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Hi Ludovic,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> Thanks for your message.  As discussed privately, I’m sad to see you go,
>> and as co-maintainer I can only say you’re welcome back anytime you want.
>
> Thank you Ludovic, and thanks to all for the kind words.  In light of
> recent events at the FSF, I've had a change of heart and have decided to
> return to the Guix project.  Although I welcome more help with these
> packages, I will resume my previous role, doing what I can to keep our
> Linux-libre and IceCat packages up-to-date, as soon as my commit rights
> on Savannah are restored.
>
>       Regards,
>         Mark

This is great news!  I'm happy to say: welcome back!

Maxim

Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Gábor Boskovits]

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Hello Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. szept. 11., Sze,
3:36):

> Hello,
>
> I need to take a break from Guix.  I'm not sure if I'll be back or not.
> Someone else should take over maintenance of the Linux-libre and IceCat
> packages, starting with the recent kernel updates for 4.4.192, 4.9.192,
> 4.14.143, 4.19.72, and 5.2.14.
>

Thanks for the hard work. I am sad to see you go, and hope to see you back
soon.

I would like to ask, if there were any special workflows for linux-libre or
icecat, so
that the maintainers taking over can keep up the good quality work you have
done
in the past.


>
>       Thanks,
>         Mark
>
>
I wish you the best of luck in the future.

Best regards,
g_bor

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Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Chris Marusich]

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Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> I need to take a break from Guix.  I'm not sure if I'll be back or not.
> Someone else should take over maintenance of the Linux-libre and IceCat
> packages, starting with the recent kernel updates for 4.4.192, 4.9.192,
> 4.14.143, 4.19.72, and 5.2.14.

Thank you for all your work on these important parts of the Guix package
collection.  I and many others have directly benefited from your
contributions and helpful insights.  I will miss you, and I'm sure
others will, too.

Regarding IceCat specifically, is there any work-in-progress towards the
latest Firefox ESR release (68.1.0) that we should know about?

No matter where life takes you, I wish you the best of luck!

-- 
Chris

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Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Danny Milosavljevic]

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Hi Mark,

thank you for all the work you've done, and I'm sad to see you go.

It's great that you are officially announcing it so that handover can happen.

I've "left" other projects before and it's not clear beforehand how the news is received.

So thank you for that as well.

I hope I'll see you again.

BR,
  Danny

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Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Thanks for all the work you've done on this, Mark!

Mark H Weaver writes:

> Hello,
>
> I need to take a break from Guix.  I'm not sure if I'll be back or not.
> Someone else should take over maintenance of the Linux-libre and IceCat
> packages, starting with the recent kernel updates for 4.4.192, 4.9.192,
> 4.14.143, 4.19.72, and 5.2.14.
>
>       Thanks,
>         Mark

Re: Maintainer needed for Linux-libre and IceCat packages

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I need to take a break from Guix.  I'm not sure if I'll be back or not.
> Someone else should take over maintenance of the Linux-libre and IceCat
> packages, starting with the recent kernel updates for 4.4.192, 4.9.192,
> 4.14.143, 4.19.72, and 5.2.14.
>
>       Thanks,
>         Mark

Thank you for all of your work, Mark.

-- 
Katherine