The community is more important than the product. — Pieter Hintjens Dear contributors to the Nix ecosystem, dear users, We recognize that the Nix community keeps growing and changing, and its governance has not been adapting accordingly. While the foundation board was never intended to lead the community, we cannot deny that it is perceived to be in that role by many, and we therefore take full accountability. We acknowledge there’s been a series of recent crises in our community, which are...

Eelco has agreed to step down from the NixOS foundation board. Over the next two weeks, a constitutional assembly will be appointed to draft a constitution to democratically govern Nix/NixOS.

  • Solar Bear@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Overall I’m quite pleased with this news, but I’m a bit of a zealot when it comes to democracy. Barring any breakdown of process during the drafting and election phases, I see this as an absolute win, and the first step towards repairing the community.

    • uthredii@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Most is described here (the author probably has some amount of bias but this is the only summary I know of): https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained

      Other than that some very active contributors resigned as maintainers in support of the open letters.

      And it seems now that the community members in support of the open letters/changes have convinced the board of the foundation to agree on some things.

    • KindaABigDyl@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s a hostile takeover by a handful of politically far-left individuals, stealing power away from Nix’s creator, Eelco, framed by them as “giving power to the community,” when they really just want to establish their own oligarchy and run moderation their way.

      Just like Eelco’s way of governing, it will likely have 0 effect on 99% of people using NixOS, but a handful of maintainers will be mad. Nothing will change for those out of the loop.

      • ericjmorey@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        How well NixOS and Nixpkgs are maintained absolutely affects users of NixOS. This may have just saved NixOS from becoming an unmaintained or at best slowly maintained project that people advise against using for anything serious.