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NixOS forked (aux.computer)

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Here's a tl;dr : https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained

If you're looking for a TL;DR of the situation, here it is:

Nix community had a governance crisis for years. While there has been progress on building explicit teams to govern the project, it continued to fundamentally rely on implicit authority and soft power

Eelco Dolstra, as one of the biggest holders of this implicit authority and soft power, has continuously abused this authority to push his decisions, and to block decisions that he doesn't like

Crucially, he also used his implicit authority to block any progress on solving this governance crisis and establishing systems with explicit authority

This has led uncountably many people to burn out over the issue, and culminated in writing an open letter to have Eelco resign from all formal positions in the project and take a 6 month break from any involvement in the community

Eelco wrote a response that largely dismisses the issues brought up, and advertises his company's community as a substitute for Nix community

And a not too long read : https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-27-nix-internal-crisis.html

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

has continuously abused this authority to push his decisions, and to block decisions that he doesn’t like

Hmm. I've seen this before. It looks like the "sensationalist" crowd has issues with people who don't go along with their sensationalism.

I'm not a Nix expert nor do I know the inner-workings of its management. I've just seen this so many times that I don't expect more from people at this point.

It sucks when idiots group together to push smart people into doing their bidding. I respect those who resist it, though.