Re: Request for commit access

[Steve George <steve@futurile.net>]

Hi AVP,

Congratulations on your contributions. As I understand it you'll need to ask "three committers who could vouch for you", and they'll need to email the maintainers alias: . When you have those sponsors you also email the guix-maintainers alias.

The details of the process are here:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Commit-Access.html

Regards,

Steve / Futurile

On 29 Jul, Artyom V. Poptsov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to apply for commit access in GNU Guix.  I think I could help
> with some packages (as I usually do now), but maybe just a little bit
> faster.  It seems that GNU Guix could use another helping hand as
> there's sometimes a shortage of people who review patches.
> 
> It should be noted here that contributing to Guix is part of my hobby
> and my contributions are a bit sporadic and don't have steady schedule.
> 
> Currently I see the following "areas of interest" in my contributions:
> - Engineering software, mainly PrusaSlicer and FreeCAD.
> - Networking software, mainly IPFS (Kubo) and Yggdrasil.  Me with
> Sharlatan Hellseher are gradually un-bundling parts of IPFS (Golang
> packages) now.
> - Updating outdated packages where I can.
> 
> I'm still learning some of the GNU Guix patch requirements and workflows
> and sometimes there are issues with my patches that I need to fix, but
> I'm trying to learn from my mistakes.
> 
> Probably Sharlatan Hellseher, Andrew Tropin and Ludovic Courtès could
> write some "professional reference" to this email as I worked along with
> them on Guix patches.
> 
> Also Efraim Flashner suggested that I apply to the commit access so
> maybe he could speak out here too.
> 
> This email should be signed with my main GPG key which is
>   D0C2 EAC1 3310 822D 98DE  B57C E9C5 A2D9 0898 A02F
> 
> You can find the public key here:
>   https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=D0C2EAC13310822D98DEB57CE9C5A2D90898A02F&fingerprint=on&op=index
> 
> I also have second newer signing subkey that I use when working on my
> notebook:
>   01FD 85F4 1A7B 7F82 0583 06A5 935E BE07 36DC 857E
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - avp
> 
> -- 
> Artyom "avp" Poptsov <poptsov.artyom@gmail.com>
> Home page: https://memory-heap.org/~avp/
> CADR Hackerspace co-founder: https://cadrspace.ru/
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