Re: Updates for Go

[Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>]

On 8/16/23 11:25 AM, Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the 
GNU System distribution. wrote:
> Hi Katherine,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 12:59 PM Katherine Cox-Buday
> <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There's also no one on Guix's Go team. I've created a patch to add
>> myself[1]
> 
> Your courage and initiative are inspiring. (Unfortunately, my skills
> are lousy.) Anybody with an interest in Golang should please speak up!

Thank you, but I'm just another hacker trying to do her part to maintain 
software she loves. I am always grateful to the other Guix hackers doing 
amazing work!

I tried to emphasize in my message that even if you dislike Go, there 
are some critical packages like Docker that are essentially going 
unmaintained because they are written in Go. *This includes security 
fixes*. As it stands, I cannot recommend people use our packages which 
are compiled by Go v1.17.3 in production. I think every release of Go 
(43 of them!) since that one has contained a security patch.

Even if you dislike Go, but can work your way through a package, please 
consider signing up!

--
Katherine