Much ado about "nothing" - Xe Iaso (==Goodbye NixOS)

Linux@lemmy.ml – 121 points – 2 months ago

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/much-ado-about-nothing/44236

Not directly related to this blog post but from NixOS discourse forum, a tl;dr from another person about the NixOS drama here :

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

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What makes you think ("identity") politics are unrelated to software development? Software development is deeply entrenched in politics. It's just that, just as in most topics that don't have politics as their main thing, a lot of people would rather pretend it's not.

Any community of people presupposes politics. If it doesn't show, most likely it's a very narrow or homogeneous group of people, which involves excluding/shunning others to defend this narrowness. So that has its own sort of problem too.

What makes you think (“identity”) politics are unrelated to software development?

The fact that the code quality is independent from your "identity" ?

yes because how a factory produces goods is independent from its workers well being, right?

code is made by people, pushing away good contributors will lead to worse code, stressing contributors will lead to worse code, splitting contributor communities will lead to worse code

if you really only care about code quality why are you bothered by identity talk? leave it to those affected and go back looking at code