Re: Guix "R" Us - GNU's joy store!

[jgart]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:44:27 -0600 Katherine Cox-Buday 
<cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Katherine,

> I hope we can take the reasons people make these channels and bring
> them back to Guix proper to make contributing here just as easy.

Contributing to Guix upstream is definitely high priority for the guixrus
channel and the whereiseverone community.

For example, as a small community we are planning to organize a monthly
channel cleanup day in which we look at all the packages in guixrus and
determine which packages should be sent upstream and which packages still
need more work. This style of iteration can serve as an additional and
more intimate layer of onboarding for newer users because we review
patches on https://lists.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus as well as
discuss package issues on #whereiseveryone (libera.chat) in a short
feedback loop. In the process of doing the above we also explain the
upstream contribution process to newcomers. My hope is that higher-quality
packages by first-time Guixers will become more commonplace in upstream
issue trackers.

We are also experimenting with using builds.sr.ht to run the guix lint
checker, and more when submitting patches to guixrus/upstream thanks
to dhruvin:

https://builds.sr.ht/~dhruvin/job/665098
https://builds.sr.ht/~dhruvin/job/665205

We are developing a package search[1] in the context of the guixrus
channel web site:

https://paste.sr.ht/~dhruvin/0828f7b1df2ffa7b7b31c50e07ef043d94caeea0

guixrus had 83 packages that day. If interested in the library that was
used to generate the json paste output see this repo:

https://git.sr.ht/~dhruvin/doug

A top priority goal of the whereiseveryone community is to encourage
new Guixers to contribute to Guix (upstream as well as whereiseveryone
community projects). We want to facilitate, develop, and discuss that
process, as well as experiment with fun ideas and tools for Guix. It's
ambitious, I know. We'll take it one S-expression at a time.

happy hacking,

https://sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/