Re: Discussion on Guix funding // future

[Steve George <steve@futurile.net>]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks adding your thoughts, we're all trying to be "humble and enthusiastic" for Guix here!

On 25 Oct, Christopher Howard wrote:
> A few thoughts, as a humble but enthusiastic guix user. I'll try to be brief:
> 
> - Having a full-time job already, I don't mind making some free contributions (patches, troubleshooting) for Guix, even if somebody else is getting paid to do it.
> - I like that idea of donation money being spent to contract people to do bug killing, package maintenance, or to work on specific development projects.

Thanks, that's a useful to have input from our users and advocates on this topic. 

> - For me, it is critical that Guix remain a purist free-software project, in the way that the FSF and the GNU project promote this.
>
> - I wonder if existing FSF systems or tooling, for their campaigns work, could be of benefit to Guix. FSF has an energetic system for campaigning for donations that seems to work pretty well for them.
> - Personally, I like doing development over e-mail and debbugs, due to how this integrates well with Emacs functionality. It does not appeal to me to have to log in to some heavyweight forge Web site, through a Web browser I despise, to have to participate. I would be interested in other APIs and tools if I can utilize them all through just Emacs.
 
If you're interested in this topic there's quite a few different discussions in the email archive, but it's never really achieved a conclusion. There are many contributors who enjoy the current process, so I don't think anyone's proposing removing that. It's about whether the project could 'add' a forge-pr process - so it's an 'Email *and* <insert something>'. This is just background info as it's not the main aim of this thread.

Steve / Futurile