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

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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
  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
  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
  Pico.css.

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