From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Ricardo Wurmus appointed co-maintainer Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:46:42 -0500 Message-ID: <87lh04hh31.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87r3agae4q.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXTqV-0003pL-Gm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:47:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXTqQ-0005CK-El for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:46:59 -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 Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hello Guix! > > I=E2=80=99m happy to announce that Ricardo Wurmus has just been appoint= ed 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 histor= y > in terms of code, reviews, and talks. He has deployed Guix on the > bioinformatics clusters of his workplace and trained his co-workers. H= e > undoubtedly has all the technical and social skills I would expect for > the job. Please welcome him warmly! :-) > > I don=E2=80=99t like to think in terms of titles, and it=E2=80=99s impo= rtant 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 t= o > 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 =E2=80=9C= present=E2=80=9D > 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 > =E2=80=9Cthe big picture=E2=80=9D. > > Thank you for joining, Ricardo! > > Ludo=E2=80=99. Late to join in, but congrats! A great fit in all regards! :)