#guixdays is awesome!
#guixdays is awesome!
In my coffee fueled energy I'm thinking of a "let's make a service!" workshop during #guixdays. Perhaps using #gotosocial or #honk. I'd suggest #tailscale but my service is already working.
What's the #1 improvement #guix contributors would like to see?
Timely reviews and actions taken on contributions. It was #1 in every question, with so many comments!
Lots of contributors thinking about ways to automate patch reviews and QA. The theme is removing friction from the Dev Experience.
Both Python and #Nix have approaches to this. What's the approach for Guix? Lots to talk about on this front at #guixdays
More here:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-3/
How likely are #guix contributors to keep contributing?
66% are likely which is great. From the comments we can see that it's a friendly project and the package format is pretty approachable.
Most volunteer contributors are 'scratching their own' itch - so it doesn't mean they all WILL contribute again. But it's a good indicator of overall feeling.
Ultimately contributor satisfaction is really important for #FOSS health!
More at:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-3/
How do contributors feel about working on #guix ?
Part 3 of the Guix survey is out:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-3/
Timed perfectly ahead of #guixdays and #fosdem discussions!
Number of active contributors to Guix over the last two years - 450!
About 300 contributors took the survey and the project is overwhelmingly #foss #volunteer driven (94%)
I think that's really cool and shows off #FreeSoftware #Guile #Lisp and #Linux
#Guix survey found that 70% of users deploy it as a graphical #desktop #linux
Be interesting to consider packaging and testing priorities at #guixdays given this figure
About a third are #server deployments, on hardware, but also #vm #kvm - interesting!
The ability to use #guix for #docker or #singularity deployments and #CI were all mentioned. Maybe potential for further development?
#Using #guix in #cloud or #containers with #orchestration (e.g. #k8s ) doesn't seem widespread yet.
#guix survey found that 67% were happy with the experience adopting #guix.
I thought that was pretty good, given that the #guix and #nix approach is revolutionary from how other #Linux distros work.
Lots of great feedback on what could be improved - more examples and how-to's, finding missing packages, issues over drivers and much interest on how to use with #docker #rust #golang and #npm
Plenty to think about at #guixdays #fosdem
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/
First day of #guixdays fringe event at #fosdem with 22 attendants!
#guix #guixdays2023
My talk got accepted for #guixdays! Now I just have to write and record it. By the end of next week.