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+title: GNU Guix maintainer collective update
+date: 2020-05-04 9:00
+author: Maxim Cournoyer
+tags: Community
+---
+
+This blog post is to announce a change of hands in the Guix
+co-maintainer collective: Ricardo Wurmus is stepping down from his
+role, and Mathieu Othacehe will be filling in to ensure continuity,
+after being elected by the other Guix co-maintainers.
+
+Ricardo has been around since the start, and has been invaluable to
+the project.  He has been key in maintaining the infrastructure Guix
+runs on, contributed countless packages, core APIs and tools
+(importers, build systems, and Docker image creation to name a few).
+Over the years, he's also brought us a fair share of cool hacks such
+as a [nifty issue tracker](https://issues.guix.gnu.org), and generously
+spent time helping Guix users in the IRC channel and mailing lists.
+Equally important was his taking care of many administrative tasks
+such as expanding the build farm and organizing Outreachy
+participation.  We're sad to let him go, and hope he'll stick around
+as time permits :-).
+
+On the happier side of things, the appointment of Mathieu Othacehe as
+a co-maintainer means Guix will benefit from renewed energy and vision
+to grow further.  Mathieu has already made valuable contributions to
+Guix; the graphical installer that allows users to easily install the
+Guix System on their machine is one of them.  He has also
+demonstrated the qualities we expect from a co-maintainer.  We're
+thrilled to make official his new role as a Guix co-maintainer!
+
+Let's take a moment to show our gratitude to Ricardo and welcome
+Mathieu in his new role!
+
+#### The Guix co-maintainers
+
+The Guix maintainer collective now consists of Marius Bakke, Maxim
+Cournoyer, Ludovic Courtès, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice and Mathieu
+Othacehe.  You can reach us all by email at
+`address@hidden`, a private alias.
+
+For information about the responsibilities assumed by the Guix
+co-maintainers, you are encouraged to read a previous [blog
+post](https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/gnu-guix-maintainer-collective-expands/)
+that covered the topic.
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional package
+manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that [respects
+user
+freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it
+can be used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686,
+x86_64, ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
+transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
+per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  When used as a standalone
+GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to
+operating system configuration management.  Guix is highly customizable
+and hackable through [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile)
+programming interfaces and extensions to the
+[Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.