Hi Guix,
this is not a new idea[1]: let’s add a page to the website that lists
teams
and a mail alias for each of the teams.
For example, the “R team” consists of people familiar with how R
packaging works in Guix, e.g. Simon and myself. There would be an
alias
“guix-team-r@gnu.org”. People with questions about R in Guix could
write an email to that alias.
Mumi could also send email to guix-team-r@gnu.org to remind them about
patches relating to R / Bioconductor / CRAN, etc.
Maintainers could write to these teams before releases to ask if there
are any obstacles to a release.
As a first step I’d suggest collecting teams, setting up the email
aliases, and updating the website to show the existing teams. Here’s
a draft of three teams:
* R team
Simon Tournier
Ricardo Wurmus
* Java team
Julien Lepiller
* Rust team
Efraim Flashner
Aleksandr Vityazev
Arun Isaac
John Soo
Maxim Cournoyer
Nicolas Goaziou
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
What do you think?