Hi Christopher, Thanks adding your thoughts, we're all trying to be "humble and enthusiastic" for Guix here!
On 25 Oct, Christopher Howard wrote: > A few thoughts, as a humble but enthusiastic guix user. I'll try to be brief: > > - Having a full-time job already, I don't mind making some free contributions > (patches, troubleshooting) for Guix, even if somebody else is getting paid to > do it. > - I like that idea of donation money being spent to contract people to do bug > killing, package maintenance, or to work on specific development projects. Thanks, that's a useful to have input from our users and advocates on this topic. > - For me, it is critical that Guix remain a purist free-software project, in > the way that the FSF and the GNU project promote this. > > - I wonder if existing FSF systems or tooling, for their campaigns work, > could be of benefit to Guix. FSF has an energetic system for campaigning for > donations that seems to work pretty well for them. > - Personally, I like doing development over e-mail and debbugs, due to how > this integrates well with Emacs functionality. It does not appeal to me to > have to log in to some heavyweight forge Web site, through a Web browser I > despise, to have to participate. I would be interested in other APIs and > tools if I can utilize them all through just Emacs. If you're interested in this topic there's quite a few different discussions in the email archive, but it's never really achieved a conclusion. There are many contributors who enjoy the current process, so I don't think anyone's proposing removing that. It's about whether the project could 'add' a forge-pr process - so it's an 'Email *and* <insert something>'. This is just background info as it's not the main aim of this thread. Steve / Futurile
