From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex@pompo.co>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Ricardo Wurmus appointed co-maintainer
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:50:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1bSu4M-0004Un-C3@eggs.gnu.org> (raw)
On 26 Jul 2016 12:27, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>
> 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 GNU Guix.
Yay! Congrats Ricardo - This is great for the Guix project :)
Happy hacking,
Alex
>
> 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’.
next reply other threads:[~2016-07-28 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-28 11:50 Alex Sassmannshausen [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-26 10:27 Ricardo Wurmus appointed co-maintainer Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-26 11:31 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-07-26 13:17 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-07-26 13:28 ` Thompson, David
2016-07-26 13:34 ` Andreas Enge
2016-07-26 14:07 ` 宋文武
2016-07-26 16:08 ` Roel Janssen
2016-07-29 1:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-10 13:46 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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