Re: Guix (and Guile's) promise, and how to (hopefully) get there

[Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>]

Hi Juliana,

I like some of the points you do here: we should encourage committers to 
review patches, and give commit access to those that are focused on that.

On the other hand, I disagree with your message about GNU and the FSF.

First, I don't think the sentiment you describe about GNU and the FSF is 
universal. It's probably biased by the people you interact with and the 
country you live in. That's not something for me to criticize,  you have 
your views and they are valid, the problem with your argument is the 
same I find with the "let's use a Git forge, that'll give use many new 
contributors!".

It's just really hard to measure.

I wish being a GNU project was the only problem Guix had. The sad truth 
is we'd probably had the same conversation if the project was just Guix, 
with no GNU and no FSF support involved. Furthermore, we'd probably be 
in a worse position, at least economically speaking.

I understand the recent news make us be a little bit heated about the 
FSF and so on, but I don't think it's a central matter of this discussion.

It's probably going to encourage a division in the community as many 
members are here **because** this is a FSF endorsed distribution. Being 
a GNU/FSF project still means a lot to many, and when it comes to the 
free software purism, those acronyms still have some credibility.

Maybe without those we'd be just empty. We don't know. So I prefer to be 
more cautious with the arguments.

Thanks for highlighting the work of these community members and for your 
thoughts.

Ekaitz