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What's the #1 improvement 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 have approaches to this. What's the approach for Guix? Lots to talk about on this front at

More here:

guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix

How likely are 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 health!

More at:

guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix

How do contributors feel about working on ?

Part 3 of the Guix survey is out:

guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix

Timed perfectly ahead of and discussions!

Number of active contributors to Guix over the last two years - 450!

About 300 contributors took the survey and the project is overwhelmingly driven (94%)

I think that's really cool and shows off and

guix.gnu.orgGuix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 3) — 2025 — Blog — GNU GuixBlog posts about GNU Guix.

survey found that 70% of users deploy it as a graphical

Be interesting to consider packaging and testing priorities at given this figure

About a third are deployments, on hardware, but also - interesting!

The ability to use for or deployments and were all mentioned. Maybe potential for further development?

in or with (e.g. ) doesn't seem widespread yet.

survey found that 67% were happy with the experience adopting .

I thought that was pretty good, given that the and approach is revolutionary from how other 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 and

Plenty to think about at

guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix