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+title: GNU Guix maintainer collective expands
+date: 2019-10-05 14:30
+author: Ludovic Courtès, Ricardo Wurmus
+tags: Community
+---
+
+In July, we—Ricardo Wurmus and Ludovic Courtès—[called for volunteers to
+join us in maintaining
+Guix](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00128.html).
+We are thrilled to announce that three brave hackers responded and that
+they’re now officially co-maintainers!  The Guix maintainer collective
+now consists of Marius Bakke, Maxim Cournoyer, and Tobias
+Geerinckx-Rice, in addition to Ricardo and Ludovic.  You can reach us
+all by email at `address@hidden`, a private alias.
+
+So what does it mean to be a maintainer?  There are some duties:
+
+  1. Enforcing GNU and Guix policies, such as the project’s commitment
+     to be released under a copyleft free software license (GPLv3+) and
+     to follow the [Free System Distribution
+     
Guideline](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html)
+     (FSDG).
+
+  2. Enforcing our [code of
+     conduct](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT):
+     maintainers are the contact point for anyone who wants to report
+     abuse.
+
+  3. Making decisions, about code or anything, when consensus cannot be
+     reached.  We’ve probably never encountered such a situation before,
+     though!
+
+Maintainers should have a good idea of what’s going on, but the other
+responsibilities can (and should! :-)) be delegated.  Maybe you, dear
+reader, can help on one of them?  Here are some examples:
+
+  - Making releases.  Any experienced developer can take this
+    responsibility for some time.
+
+  - Dealing with development and its everyday issues as well as
+    long-term roadmaps, branch merges, code review, bug triage, all
+    that.
+
+  - Participating in Outreachy and Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
+
+  - Organizing the Guix Days before FOSDEM and our presence at FOSDEM
+    and other conferences.
+
+  - Taking care of Guix money kindly donated by dozens of people and
+    [held at the FSF](https://www.fsf.org/working-together).  A Spending
+    Committee currently consisting of Tobias, Ricardo, and Ludovic, is
+    responsible for deciding on, well, what to spend money on.
+    Maintainers should also keep in touch with the “Guix Europe”
+    non-profit registered in France, currently spearheaded by Manolis
+    Ragkousis and Andreas Enge, and which has been providing financial
+    support for hardware and events.
+
+  - Keeping the build farm infrastructure up and running, extending it,
+    thinking about hosting issues, etc.
+
+  - Keeping the web site up-to-date.
+
+  - Looking after people: making sure to promote people who are very
+    involved in leadership position; dubbing new committers, new
+    maintainers, new members of the spending committee.  Supporting new
+    initiatives.  Generally trying to make sure everyone’s happy.  :-)
+
+With now five people on-board, we’ll probably be able to improve some of
+our processes and be able to scale better.  You’re welcome to share your
+ideas on `address@hidden` or directly at `address@hidden`!
+
+More generally, we think rotating responsibilities is a great way to
+bring new ideas and energy into the project.  We are super happy and
+grateful that Maxim, Marius, and Tobias are taking on this
+challenge—thank you folks!
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional package
+manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects
+user
+freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it
+can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686,
+x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
+transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
+per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  When used as a standalone
+GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to
+operating system configuration management.  Guix is highly customizable
+and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile)
+programming interfaces and extensions to the
+[Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.