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

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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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[–] Feathercrown 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if we start to think that being in some groups does not inherently make you a better candidate to something

The argument isn't that they're better, but that having a wider range of opinions and perspectives within the leadership group improves it more than a strictly merit-based approach would.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you realiza that "wider range of opinions and perspectives" does not means "hard requirement for a person from a minority" in a leadership position, right ?

[–] Feathercrown 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, I wasn't arguing that this plan was correct. Just that you misinterpreted the intent.