From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Janssen Subject: Re: Ricardo Wurmus appointed co-maintainer Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:08:16 +0200 Message-ID: <871t2gjsb3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r3agae4q.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS4tl-00064u-AX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:08:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS4th-0007TY-8O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:08:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r3agae4q.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > I’m happy to announce that Ricardo Wurmus has just been appointed by the > GNU overseers to join me as co-maintainer of GNUGuix. > > Ricardo is a long-time free software activist and has been making > significant contributions to Guix for the most part of its young history > in terms of code, reviews, and talks. He has deployed Guix on the > bioinformatics clusters of his workplace and trained his co-workers. He > undoubtedly has all the technical and social skills I would expect for > the job. Please welcome him warmly! :-) > > I don’t like to think in terms of titles, and it’s important to me that > everyone can contribute to every aspect of the project in their > capacity, and that decision-making remains consensus-based. So I asked > myself what it means to have a maintainer hat. I think it boils down to > three duties: safeguarding the project (making sure we remain true to > our goals, ensure our code of conduct is honored and GNU policies are > followed), giving a direction and providing guidance (paying attention > to the release schedule, not losing track of priorities, being “present” > and aware of ongoing developments), and overseeing the infrastructure > and administrative things (build farm, FTP uploads, mailing list admin, > etc.) Anyone can work on these tasks, but presumably maintainers have > “the big picture”. > > Thank you for joining, Ricardo! > > Ludo’. Congratulations Ricardo! This is absolutely great news. :) Kind regards, Roel Janssen