We need GitHub teams for people who are familiar with Windows and Linux

[kytrinyx]

I've never worked on Windows, and it's been almost 10 years since I had a Linux machine. There are a lot of times where we could use help with opinions, suggestions, and verifying things on Windows/Linux.

I've made two new teams, @exercism/linux and @exercism/windows - these don't have any repositories associated with them, they're just interest groups.

If you are familiar with, use, or love either of these platforms please please let me know so I can add you to the correct team, and we can ping you when we are stuck on something.

[iHiD]

Should we also have /mac as well to spread the burden there?

[kytrinyx]

We could, but from my observations a lot of contributors are on mac and we rarely (? never?) have questions about it.

[kytrinyx]

@jwood803 @blueelvis earlier I've asked you about Windows things. Are you up for this?

@kotp you seem to be a prime candidate for the Linux one. How do you feel about being pinged about this sort of thing?

[Smarticles101]

I'm moderately familiar with Linux

[robphoenix]

I use Linux for personal and Windows for work, I'd be happy to be added to both teams. I'm no expert in either but am happy to at least attempt to resolve any queries.

[stkent]

cc @FridaTveit maybe?

[rpottsoh]

Windows here. Zero mac, and very little Linux experience.

[Theodus]

I use multiple distributions of Linux on a daily basis and would be glad to help where I can.

[HarrisonMc555]

I really like using Linux. I'm no expert but I can probably help with a lot of beginner questions. Most of my work in exercism (in several language tracks) has been in Linux.

[yurrriq]

I use macOS daily, am quite familiar with a few flavors of Linux, and have little experience or interest in Windows.

[tleen]

Linux here.

[iHiD]

Would any of you lovely people like to help us with #170, which is very linked to this?

[m-dango]

Happy to join Linux. Can probably help a bit with Windows too, but I typically only use that for gaming. (When I was last writing code on Windows I went out of my way to use bash in WSL...)

[FridaTveit]

Happy to join both Windows and Linux :)

[catb0t]

I use Windows (7 and 10) and desktop Linux every day, so I'm very familiar with both of them.

[NobbZ]

I'm primarily a linux guy, as I am using Funtoo and Ubuntu for personal use and also CentOS and Fedora at work.

But besides the VMs running on CentOS or Fedora at the office, the host box is running on a Windows 10.

So I'd applicable for both teams, would prefer to be only in linux though ;)

[kytrinyx]

Thanks everyone, I've added you all to the teams you've suggested. I'm going to leave this open so I can think of how to document this such that others know that they can join these if they want to help out.

[kotp]

Yes, for Linux for me.

[rahulagrawal97]

I use Windows and would be glad to help where I can.

[devkabiir]

Happy to work on windows.

[marnen]

We should have a Mac team too, no? I'd be happy to be on it, and probably the Linux team too.

[marnen]

Ah, I missed @kytrinyx's earlier comment about a Mac team. I have more Mac experience in general than Linux, but I usually do Exercism on Linux instances on Cloud 9, so most of my Exercism experience is on Linux.

[ilya-khadykin]

As for me, I'm currently using Windows, but planning to move to Linux world soon (I'll install Ubuntu)

@marnen it's a good idea to use Cloud 9 👍

[Stargator]

Windows experience, no access right now.

Currently using Linux - Ubuntu

[katrinleinweber]

What about the Request to join button(s) on the teams' pages: @exercism/linux and @exercism/windows? OK to use, or is a mini-application here favored?

[kytrinyx]

Request to join works for people who are already part of the organization, which might be good enough.

[opheliagame]

Linux, for me!

[coriolinus]

My daily driver machine is Windows, but 100% of my development happens within WSL, which is fundamentally linux. Feel free to add me.

[kytrinyx]

Great, thanks @opheliagame and @coriolinus -- done!

[kytrinyx]

For anyone who wants to be added to these teams in the future, please open an issue in http://github.com/exercism/exercism.io/issues and we'll get you sorted!