Steve George writes:
> 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
Hello,
Am Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 08:58:58AM -0400 schrieb Thompson, David:
> Is the Guix Foundation (https://foundation.guix.info/) the official
> non-profit for Guix?
I would say so, insofar as a volunteer project can have an "official"
non-profit (there is no office to decide officiality). The id
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM Attila Lendvai wrote:
[...]
> this is also a chicken-egg issue: until some authority is delegated, the
> center will remain a bottleneck.
[...]
> ... then i considered the effort it would take to send a patch, and the fact
> that i already have a lot of my eff
Hello,
Ekaitz Zarraga skribis:
> Second, grants work kind of well for specific tasks, but what happens
> with the structural work? Is anybody actually getting paid for it?
Should the project have the ability to pay people, I think it should
first and foremost reward thankless tasks—from system
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 c
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:21 AM Noé Lopez via Development of GNU Guix
and the GNU System distribution. wrote:
>
> Furthermore, on the topic of mail, I totally agree with David
> Thompson. Mail is cool, I get it, but another way to contribute like
> pull requests on a forgejo/gitlab mirror would b
> > The biggest questions for me are: Who makes decisions right now? Who
> > is handling money? What's the overlap? I know there's a desire for
> > collective decision making, which is great, but right now I think a
> > smaller group of core people (Ludovic + some others) needs to put a
> > structu
Hi,
We mostly agree with everything so let me focus on the points I were I'd
like to add more.
Thanks for adding your thoughts, they are really valuable.
On 2024-10-25 14:58, Thompson, David wrote:
I'd like to use this opportunity to say that the Guix project needs to
stop relying upon emai
On 25 Oct, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 11:11:31AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > Steve George writes:
> >
> > > One concern with supporting developers is whether it demotivates them
> > > in the long-term: from intrinsic to extrinisic motivation. Basically,
> > > the answer
Hey everyone,
As a relatively new user and contributor I thought I should share my
point of view.
When I started using Guix, the documentation was the greatest thing
ever, few projects have a manual like this that can help you in so many
situations. Of course the lack of wifi drivers was an issu
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 con
Steve George writes:
> On 25 Oct, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Steve George writes:
>>
>> > One concern with supporting developers is whether it demotivates them
>> > in the long-term: from intrinsic to extrinisic motivation. Basically,
>> > the answer is that pay doesn't motivate but it does 'enab
Hey Ekaitz,
I'm chiming in because I've been working on FOSS full-time for the
past 2 years. Maybe it will be of some use.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 6:08 PM Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently I've been discussing with other members of the Guix community
> about several things we consider w
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 11:11:31AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Steve George writes:
>
> > One concern with supporting developers is whether it demotivates them
> > in the long-term: from intrinsic to extrinisic motivation. Basically,
> > the answer is that pay doesn't motivate but it does 'ena
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 11:37:36AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ekaitz Zarraga writes:
>
> > Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
> > and doing the dirty job?
>
> For reviews, for example, one could find an arbitrary set of metrics and
> hand out an award with a
On 2024-10-25 13:22, Steve George wrote:
On 25 Oct, indieterminacy wrote:
On 2024-10-25 11:37, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Ekaitz Zarraga writes:
>
> > Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
> > and doing the dirty job?
>
> For reviews, for example, one could find an a
On 25 Oct, indieterminacy wrote:
> On 2024-10-25 11:37, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > Ekaitz Zarraga writes:
> >
> > > Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
> > > and doing the dirty job?
> >
> > For reviews, for example, one could find an arbitrary set of metrics and
On 25 Oct, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Steve George writes:
>
> > One concern with supporting developers is whether it demotivates them
> > in the long-term: from intrinsic to extrinisic motivation. Basically,
> > the answer is that pay doesn't motivate but it does 'enable' for
> > committed contribu
On 2024-10-25 11:37, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
Ekaitz Zarraga writes:
Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
and doing the dirty job?
For reviews, for example, one could find an arbitrary set of metrics
and
hand out an award with a monetary component at an annual e
Ekaitz Zarraga writes:
> Ricardo, I can agree with you but how do you reward just being there
> and doing the dirty job?
For reviews, for example, one could find an arbitrary set of metrics and
hand out an award with a monetary component at an annual event. I'm not
speaking of sustainable fundi
On 2024-10-25 11:11, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
Steve George writes:
One concern with supporting developers is whether it demotivates them
in the long-term: from intrinsic to extrinisic motivation. Basically,
the answer is that pay doesn't motivate but it does 'enable' for
committed contributors: t
Steve George writes:
> One concern with supporting developers is whether it demotivates them
> in the long-term: from intrinsic to extrinisic motivation. Basically,
> the answer is that pay doesn't motivate but it does 'enable' for
> committed contributors: the Linux foundation survey shows this,
Hi,
On 25 Oct, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
(...)
> I think we should try to invest more on the people, and that probably means
> paying them for the work they do. At least to some, so they can invest more
> time and care in others.
(...)
> Many people has been thanklessly working for this project, and
Hi,
Recently I've been discussing with other members of the Guix community
about several things we consider we could be improved.
The most important one in my opinion is the funding. I don't know (does
anybody know?) how Guix is funded, and it worries me.
I've been funded to work on the boo
24 matches
Mail list logo
