Hi! Before I reply to Christine’s insightful message, here’s my Chief Visionary *cough* view on the questions you ask:
Ekaitz Zarraga <eka...@elenq.tech> skribis: > - Do we need independent funding so we can pay for our machines and > maintenance? We have enough money, about 50k€ currently at the FSF plus a couple thousand € at Guix Foundation⁰. ⁰ There’s a ledger at <https://framagit.org/guix-europe/guix-europe/-/blob/main/accounting/accounting.ledger> but I don’t remember how to get the balance with the ‘ledger’ command. :-) > - Is the Guix Foundation the way to do it? It is one way to do it, yes. > - Does GNU, or the FSF, have some role on that? GNU isn’t a legal structure, it “doesn’t exist” so to speak. The FSF reimburses when we send them invoices; Guix Foundation can pay services, hardware, etc. directly, which is more convenient. My preference would be to have a single structure, to improve legibility and simplify things, and that structure would not be the FSF. > - Can we improve anything relieving weight from the shoulders of some > people instead of putting even more on them? Yes! Committers can review code; people interested in governance can help with the next steps, in particular the RFC process at <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66844>; sysadmins/devops/hackers can help with the infrastructure¹; and so on. These are some of the thankless tasks that are key to a healthy project and where we must ensure a fair distribution of work to avoid burnout. ¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00183.html > - Would having more committers help relieve some of the weight? Only if they participate in code review. > - If so, should we propose commit access to people, instead of waiting > them to propose themselves? We should. I think maintainers started doing it? > - Should we ease the process of becoming a committer? Do you think the process is difficult? Or intimidating maybe? Ludo’.
