Latest community drama: save-nix-together.org

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

Currently: WhatsABI

Personally, I think a fork (at least a partial fork) is the way to go.

The letter is borderline incomprehensible. Even if I agreed that eelco needed to step down, there is not enough actionable/constructive policy proposals beyond "step down" to create a convincing positive outcome. 😕

For completeness, here's the discourse too (let me know if I missed any community discussion threads worth sharing): https://discourse.nixos.org/t/https-save-nix-together-org/43858/

The thread locking message is lolworthy.

I did a temperature check on various community venues, lobsters is by far the most positive (despite being about half-positive): 

https://lobste.rs/s/0qvtim/open_letter_nixos_foundation

https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1c9tlw3/open_letter_to_the_nixos_foundation/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107370