guix package updates review: app team?

[Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>]

Hi, currently Guix has teams of reviewers for different types of
packages.   For example, changes to R packages and emacs seem to be
reviewed quickly.  However, recently, patches for updating more
general application packages (octave, for example) seem to be reviewed
and processed very slowly.

As a GNU/Linux distribution the update speed of applications impact
the perception of the community on a distribution, and thus it is
beneficial if packages update can be processed quickly to keep Guix
"up to date" so to speak.  Hope Guix maintainers can give some thought
to this and let more volunteers participate in package review process
to allow package updates more quickly.   As packages are usually at
the end of the dependency chain (they depend on other libraries or
components more than the other way around) updating packages shall
take less review effort.