Re: I'm retiring (for a while); help needed

[jbranso]

May 31, 2024 at 2:08 AM, "Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:



> 
> Hi Guix,
> 
> in the next few months (from June to the end of October 2024) I won't
> 
> have much time for computers. Unfortunately, this means that my
> 
> projects will stall unless some of you continue them.
> 
> There are only three important projects, and one unimportant project:
> 
> * maintenance of R, as well as CRAN and Bioconductor packages.
> 
>  I used to update all of CRAN and Bioconductor with "./pre-inst-env
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>  guix refresh -t {cran,bioconductor} -u", fix the updated package
> 
>  definitions (e.g. to restore undeclared inputs for replacing minified
> 
>  JavaScript), check that all of them build, and then push them to the
> 
>  "r-updates" branch. Then observe failures in the r-updates jobset on
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>  ci.guix.gnu.org, and fix those. Finally, rebase the changes, rebuild
> 
>  again, then merge. (This is subject to changes in branch/merge
> 
>  management.)
> 
> * Mentoring.
> 
>  I won't be able to respond to messages sent to the mentors team.
> 
> * Finishing the python-team branch.
> 
>  We wanted to merge the "python-team" branch soon, which contains
> 
>  changes to the pyproject-build-system and many many package updates.
> 
>  Build farm troubles threw a spanner in the works and we were unable to
> 
>  figure out exactly how many packages are now broken due to our
> 
>  changes. This branch needs a manager who assesses the current status,
> 
>  rebases it, and coordinates the merge. This should be done after the
> 
>  merge of "core-updates".
> 
> * Cuirass CSS+JS.
> 
>  I had started to remove Bootstrap CSS+JS and jQuery from Cuirass,
> 
>  i.e. replacing Bootstrap and jQuery JavaScript with plain standard
> 
>  JavaScript, and moving Bootstrap CSS to the much less verbose
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>  Pico.css.


I've done some web work in the past.  I could probably help with the
bootstrap -> pico move.
 
> In July I'll be back to hack on Guix for about a week, but other than
> 
> that I won't be monitoring email.
> 
> If you would like to keep these projects alive, please say so here. I
> 
> can provide more information as needed.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ricardo
>