Incidentally, two things are worth noting here IMO:
It’s great to send a heads-up before actually stepping down, with a list of projects up for grabs—as opposed to simply disappearing as is all too common. That’s a much appreciated sign of commitment and humanity.
It’s OK to retire or take a break in free software, we all do eventually; no volunteer should work 365 days a year until they experience burnout.
“Is Stack Overflow Obsolete? An Empirical Study of the Characteristics of ChatGPT Answers to Stack Overflow Questions” https://arxiv.org/html/2308.02312v4
More evidence that ChatGPT & co. are, indeed, mansplaining-as-a-service—in addition to being a resource drain.
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Many areas where you can help, with different time commitments and prerequisites: funding & spending, hardware hosting, system administration, and coding.
I realize that for years, it’s been hard for me to answer questions like “what are you working on these days?”.
I feel like a large part of my day-to-day activity has been responding to stimuli: patches, support requests from work, emergency community/technical/infra support, conferences, meetings, the occasional academic paper, etc.
There’s still a long-term theme (several, even), but my everyday activity is largely chaotic.
@khleedril I’m afraid we can’t: sooner or later, the innermost ring starts depending on some outer ring (glibc depending on Python, librsvg on Rust, etc.), and you end up with a single ring.
Coming from Debian to Guix, having "everything" in a single repository is perhaps one of my favorite practical features.
Debian has no "central" location for VCS repositories, every single package defines a custom location, which could be entirely outside of Debian infrastructure, or no proper VCS at all!
Guix having everything in a monorepo enables searching for packages with "git grep" and also cargo-culting, er, borrowing from other packages much more easily.
Highlights: Haskell instead of Scheme, JSON instead of sexps, SSH instead of OpenPGP, additional features such as per-file authorizations and unsigned merge commits.