emacs: add panchoh as maintainer

[panchoh]

I humbly request to join the Emacs brotherhood here, and help maintain the Emacs module in nixpkgs.

I’m aware that I still have much to learn, but I’ve also managed to get a couple of bumps right.

By becoming a maintainer here, I reckon that I’ll get notified whenever PRs are opened that affect the Emacs module, and that will help me become more proficient in it (instead of having to hunt for those PRs when I remember to).

I also plan to become a maintainer of the Emacs module on stylix.

As background, my first contribution to nixpkgs was a simple fix for caddy, back in 2020, and since then I've fallen in love hard with nix, and NixOS has been my daily driver for my humble fleet of boxen for two years now (I’m actually somewhat proud if my flake).

I also help maintain autofirma-nix, which was recently accepted into the nix-community org, yay!

I used to maintain a build of Emacs 28 on Arch Linux’ AUR, back when native compilation was all the rage.

I’d appreciate any feedback you have to give me, especially if this approach is not appropriate.

Thanks for your time and attention, and may the winter snows be gentle upon your roof.

CC @jian-lin

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• Built on platform(s)
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  • aarch64-linux
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  • sandbox = true
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[jian-lin]

Welcome.

In addition to the Emacs package (pkgs.emacs), would you like to maintain other Emacs-related things such as Emacs lisp packages (pkgs.emacs.pkgs.foo)? If so, please also add your maintainer entry here.

[adisbladis]

Welcome indeed!

Having lots to learn is absolutely not a blocker to join the group of maintainers (who doesn't have lots to learn?). That's why we have multiple maintainers.

Just awaiting a response on whether you also want to be involved in the package set :)

[AndersonTorres]

Welcome aboard!
And do not worry with the grey tests.

[panchoh]

Thanks for the warm welcome, folks.

And I appreciate your words of encouragement.

Yes, I’ll gladly add myself to the Emacs team, and help with the rest of the ecosystem, thanks for bringing that up!

Now that we are at it, I’ll ask: how do you coordinate as a team? Any room on Matrix, or by any other means?

Ah, I’m also a big fan of pair programming, so if you ever fancy a session, just ping me and we’ll make it happen.

Again, thanks for this. <3

[jian-lin]

There is a matrix room #emacs:nixos.org. Maybe we should add it somewhere in the manual.