Re: [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching

[raingloom]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:19:11 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> 
> > Ultimately, I gave up.  In my opinion, Guix has never achieved
> > usability as a desktop system on non-Intel systems.  Therefore, the
> > Guix community is unable to attract many developers who want a
> > distro that supports non-Intel systems well.  Our community has
> > thus become dominated by Intel users, and there's unsufficient
> > political will to adopt policies that would enable us to provide a
> > usable system for non-Intel users.  
> 
> A practical problem that’s been mentioned repeatedly is lack of
> ci.guix hardware for non-Intel architectures: please everyone,
> consider helping the project find either sponsors or companies that
> sell fitting hardware, along with a plan to host it and maintain it
> over time!
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

What about a Liberapay for Guix? Could also be used to pay developers.