A leadership crisis in the Nix community

Posted Apr 29, 2024 16:00 UTC (Mon) by atnot (subscriber, #124910)
In reply to: A leadership crisis in the Nix community by snajpa
Parent article: A leadership crisis in the Nix community

I don't think that's entirely fair. There were people in the community who anticipated this exact outcome 3 years ago, e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/98#issuecomment-894473214 is remarkably prescient. This whole thing hasn't happened overnight, the tensions have obviously been building for a while and there were plenty of occasions to change course.

A leadership crisis in the Nix community

Posted Apr 29, 2024 16:38 UTC (Mon) by snajpa (subscriber, #73467) [Link]

It was evident to me some trouble was brewing even sooner, for me the tipping point, where I decided to keep myself out of it, was NixCon '19. AFAIK, it started as kind of a power struggle between then the largest Nix-based employer (Tweag) and the original crew... it wasn't a nice picture already back then. IMHO the Anduril drama masks these issues and paints the two implicitly as evil, so it makes sense to me why it's this much emphasized by the "anonymous" collective.