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Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 4 21:07:47 2022 -0500

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+title: GNU Guix maintainer rotation
+date: 2022-01-06 9:00
+author: Maxim Cournoyer
+tags: Community
+---
+
+For some time already, Ludovic and Marius have voiced their desire to
+step down from the Guix maintainers collective.  An email announcing
+the news and calling for new maintainers was sent more than 4 months
+ago [0].  We're very happy to announce that Efraim Flashner has
+responded to the call and accepted to join the Guix maintainers
+collective!  Efraim has been with Guix for a long time -- [the first
+recorded Git history of their activity goes back to
+2015](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=7e22d6fee921f7559fc704a35d226875ec2f9ea8),
+and they have since authored more than 6000 commits!  More
+importantly, Efraim has demonstrated traits we value for a
+co-maintainer, such as good communication and collaboration abilities,
+values that align well with those of the GNU project and overall a
+person you'd like to hang out with at FOSDEM :-).
+
+We're sad to see Ludovic and Marius step down from their current
+duties, but we take comfort knowing they will remain among us for the
+good hacks and occasional guidance.  Loosing them as co-maintainer
+will be a difficult test for the remaining Guix co-maintainers.
+Ludovic's wit, relentless energy, tactful communication and wise
+planning have been invaluable to the Guix project throughout the
+years.  Ludovic has mentioned this decision was at least partly based
+on their desire to guard Guix against the [Founder's
+syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder's_syndrome), which is
+something we can only applaud.  Marius has served as co-maintainer
+since October 2019.  Their calm, composed attitude has helped us
+navigating through at times difficult situations, and their technical
+wizardry has brought us the likes of
+[ungoogled-chromium](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=f1e9de4d3aefae420db633a56ba9cd93f7750df3)
+and a [Ganeti
+service](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/running-a-ganeti-cluster-on-guix/),
+among many others.
+
+Let's take a moment to say thank you to Ludovic and Marius for their
+valuable years as maintainers, and wish they can enjoy their newfound
+extra time :-).
+
+Let's also wish a warm welcome to Efraim.  Thank you for stepping up
+to become a co-maintainer, Efraim!
+
+#### The Guix co-maintainers
+
+The Guix maintainer collective now consists of Efraim Flashner,
+Mathieu Othacehe, Maxim Cournoyer and Tobias Geerinckx-Rice.  You can
+reach us all by email at `guix-maintainers@gnu.org`, a private alias.
+
+For information about the responsibilities assumed by the Guix
+co-maintainers, you are encouraged to read a previous [blog
+post](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/gnu-guix-maintainer-collective-expands/)
+that covered the topic.
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNU Guix](https://guix.gnu.org) 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 Hurd or the Linux
+kernel, or it can be used as a standalone operating system distribution
+for i686, x86_64, ARMv7, AArch64 and POWER9 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.