open letter to the NixOS foundation
save-nix-together.org

this thread fucking sucks for me to have to post, but the linked open letter is an important read. none of the systemic issues pertaining to marginalized folks and commercial/military-industrial interests in the Nix community I’ve previously written about on TechTakes have been solved; in fact, they’ve gotten worse to the point where the Nix community moderation team is essentially in the process of quitting. that’s the beginning to an awful end for a project I like a whole lot.

even if you don’t give a fuck about Nix, the open letter is an important read because the toxicity, conflicts of interest, and underhanded tactics detailed in it are incredibly common in the open source space. this letter could have been written about a multitude of infamously toxic open source projects; Nix is lucky that it has marginalized folks involved who care about the direction of the project and want to make things better, but those people are actively leaving, after being burnt out by the toxic people and structures entrenched in Nix’s community. that’s a fucking tragedy.

  • @froztbyteEnglish
    6•2 months ago

    Briefly clicked through the commit history earlier, there’s a couple more that aren’t tagged in the milestone list

    Expect more spin soon, I guess

    • @froztbyteEnglish
      4•2 months ago

      ran a quick search on the repo to check something, rg -l 'maintainers = \[ \]'

      can’t paste the results here unfortunately (guessing post size or lemmy filtering or something). not a very scientific or comprehensive search but I just wanted a very quick look. couple of names in there that I can see that aren’t great to not have maintainers on.

      (note: a more thorough check would also have to check sub-team(?) expressions as well as recent git modifications on those expressions. however, I’m not going to even try do that before I’ve had some food, and maybe ordered some booze too)