Nominate @gepbird

[infinisil]

Migrating self-nomination from #50 (comment) as part of switching to PR-based process: #34

Hello everyone! I'd like to nominate myself for commit access.

Some of my more meaningful contributions:

• maintaining the PNPM ecosystem: the core package and tools and some of the ~100 of packages that depend on it
• migrating from EOL .NET 6/7
• dealing with the recent libxml2 breakages and security issues

I also created nixpkgs-patcher, and contributed to nix-update.

With the commit access I can help with and getting some leaf packages merged that are lost in the sea of PRs.
In the long term I plan to make significant improvements to the PNPM ecosystem, so the packaging experience could be smoother (similar to buildNpmPackage) and the final package could have more quality (way smaller closure size, reproducible by default).
I'm also interested in improving the evaluation performance, so far I made some (failed) attempts at caching derivations, but I'll continue research on it.

Some stats:

• 245 PRs merged
• 391 PRs reviewed
• maintainer of 41 packages

Originally posted by @gepbird in #50

[infinisil]

!endorse @gepbird

Responsive, hard-working, respectful, and collaborative. As noted in the nomination, they're looking to make a bigger impact over time. Would love to see them acquire the commit bit and have the opportunity to make nixpkgs better with it.

Originally posted by @philiptaron in #50

!endorse @gepbird

I had very positive interactions with him. I'm sure he will have an even bigger impact as a committer.

Originally posted by @GaetanLepage in #50

!endorse @gepbird

Agree, was more surprised gepbird wasn't a committer after several interactions over the last year.

Originally posted by @khaneliman in #50

!endorse @gepbird

I can only confirm the comments above. gepbird has always proposed high quality changes and improvements to the pnpm ecosystem, like the recent v2 fetcher. Reviews are also always very thorough and actionable.

Originally posted by @Scrumplex in #50

!endorse @gepbird

I have confidence in his work, and every time I see a review from him, I know I can pretty much always trust it. Would definitely be great to have him as a committer!

Originally posted by @pyrox0 in #50

!endorse @gepbird @Prince213

Originally posted by @HeitorAugustoLN in #50

[niklaskorz]

!endorse

I'm very happy to have @gepbird as co-maintainer on the ente-auth package. His thorough reviews and testing are what we need more of on the committer team.

[philiptaron]

I'd like to see @gepbird get a commit bit.

[gepbird]

Thanks everyone!

My focus has shifted a little from what I wrote initially: currently I'm working on a BSc thesis called "Improving evaluation performance in Nix" and I hacked together a POC which already improved our eval times by a significant amount. I have many other ideas for this topic and I also want to later polish and upstream them to CppNix and Lix.
While I'm busier with uni and work, I'm still actively contributing to nixpkgs, but I don't see myself starting bigger projects in the near future like the much needed PNPM improvements. The commit bit would be still very helpful :)

[emilazy]

Approved. Thank you for your contributions!