Notices by Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr), page 6

@nobody “Teenage sickness” may not be the right term for a 40yo org.

@ekaitz_zarraga Sure, but we can also all name bigger orgs, often with more at stake, that have remained true to their mission.

Writing bylaws that protect against infiltration sounds like “Non-Profit 101” to me.

@zimoun

@zimoun Definitely! (Was the piece written by the “five co-founders”, or by just one of them? 🤔)

Philosophy class homework: Does an activist organization require authoritarianism to protect itself from infiltration and to preserve its integrity and its values?

Illustrate your work with examples of activist organizations, showing the impact of their governance structure on its integrity.

https://www.fsf.org/news/anchoring-the-fsf-in-its-values

#FreeSoftware

Nixpkgs now allows (if I’m not mistaken) merges by package maintainers, who are usually not committers, by sending commands to a merge bot:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-merge-bot
https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/172/files#diff-d44ac0cd941ca5ce5e56388cd1a97171b299feed94aae4a405b3cc56b26d8b0c

Food for thought, fellow #Guix.

Intéressante émission sur l’accord du participe passé :
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/concordance-des-temps/heurs-et-malheurs-du-participe-passe-6578592

Où j’ai appris qu’en 1901, un arrêté, annulé sous pression de l’Académie Fr., prévoyait entre autres de « tolérer » l’invariabilité du participe après l’auxiliaire avoir :
https://www.persee.fr/doc/inrp_0000-0000_1995_ant_5_2_2020

Et qu’en Belgique, l’invariabilité est effective suite à cet avis :
https://www.culture.be/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&g=0&hash=b803dfdfcdd9f2c0ed73fc354f2fe49ffa32185b&file=fileadmin/sites/culture/upload/culture_super_editor/culture_editor/documents/Gouvernance_culturelle/Conseil_LF/CLPL-avis_init3-20230626.pdf

Cc: @tract_linguistes

@jeanneavelo @straphanger @MikeFromLFE @faidit Sweet!

@MikeFromLFE @straphanger The bridge/railway on the video still exists though it was partially destroyed in 2007 to build a highway:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voie_d%27essai_de_l%27a%C3%A9rotrain_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans

Speaking of which, if you contribute to Guix but you’re not part of a team, consider joining one that matches your interests:
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Teams.html

@ekaitz_zarraga I’ve never done it! All I know is this:
https://translationproject.org/html/translators.html

(We should consider migrating to a Weblate instance sometime…)

Anyway, I’d love to have translations into Basque and more generally into “languages without a state” and other underrepresented languages.

You can make the 🐑 #Shepherd speak your mother tongue! 👇
https://translationproject.org/domain/shepherd.html

@ekaitz_zarraga @zimoun Something like this:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/talks/beamer-manifest.scm

A clear statement.
https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/meta-dampens-hate-speech-policy/

@ekaitz_zarraga @zimoun I stopped using the monolith long ago, but build time with modular TeX Live looks reasonable to me.

That said, there was a slowness issue with modular TeX Live at one point, supposedly fixed in September:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64772

Would be good to bring it up if it resurfaces!

@dpk @krans Great that all this could be implemented on top of SRFI-9!

What’s missing though, and can hardly be added, is subtyping. Of the features listed on the wiki page you mention, that’s the one I would add.

SRFI-99 looks like a good compromise?

@krans @dpk Very insightful, indeed.

Guix has developed a kitchen-sink syntactic record layer atop SRFI-9 (which is itself implemented in terms of Guile records). It has delayed and thunked fields, field value “sanitizers”, record “inheritance” (essentially functional setters), and more.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/records.scm#n285

@jo Sorte! 🤞

📢 Hey #Guix contributors! Did you know a request-for-comments (RFC) process is being formalized to enable collective decision making on important project matters?

Latest proposed text 👉 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74736#27

Discussion (open to all) is tentatively slated to end on Jan. 14th, followed by deliberation (open to team members) until Jan. 28th.

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@Guillawme @zimoun The reason for using (append (list x y z) lst) instead of (cons* x y z lst) in documentation is that the former is hopefully clearer: ‘cons*’ is kind of an obscure name, unless you’re already a Lisp insider.

(Apart from that, the two idioms are totally equivalent.)