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jonringer117
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Hi Hexa,

Since you were a moderator at the time of my ban, would care to expand as to why I was banned, and what you meant by "purge the Nazis?"
jonringer117
·2 года назад·discuss
(Thanks for all your work on rust)

There is some work to get nix to work with Windows, this is mostly being done by john ericson.

However, the real issue is that nixpkgs (the repository containing all nix expressions) heavily assume unix paradigms.

There could be a "nix-windows repository" in the medium to far future, but it will likely be very divergent from the current nix+nixpkgs story of today.
jonringer117
·2 года назад·discuss
There's nothing wrong with the fundamentals of Nix.

But working with nixpkgs is quite difficult for most. Which is why I'm attempting to address those issues in a fork, Ekapkgs.

The repos will eventually expose optional flake entry points, so it will be compatible with flakes and non-flakes.

If you're curious, https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1gatci0/announcing_t....
jonringer117
·2 года назад·discuss
That there's an established clique? I agree.
jonringer117
·2 года назад·discuss
Well, the activity around changing the status quo was done in a github issue [1]. Which sat around for many months after proposing the Apache Software Foundation's sponsorship policy of "state of nexus". Which didn't give a basis in which to exclude Anduril from sponsoring again.

Obviously there's the "people were angry last time, they will likely be angry this time". But that's projecting personal/political views into a sponsorship.

What should have been the right course of action? I'm not sure. "Tech is easy, people are hard"

1: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/110
jonringer117
·2 года назад·discuss
For those that are curious about an alternative perspective on this matter, I detailed much of my personal views in my reddit suspension post. I don't have much context on the EU NixCon 2023 events, but I've been actively involved with the project for 2019, 2020, 2021, beginning of 2022, and late 2023.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cd5fod/in_case_im_u...
jonringer117
·2 года назад·discuss
There's a lot of issues right now around communication, moderation, and community.

- One of the release managers (myself) was banned/suspended [1]

- Attempts to assert control on the board's decision-making by proxy group [2]

- Use of social media to target individuals [3]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cd5fod/in_case_im_u...

2: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/objection-to-minority-represen...

3: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/pull/133
jonringer117
·2 года назад·discuss
Correct, there was an open letter [1].

And to clarify above, there was no "contributors of this company" dynamic to the outrage.

"jobs" are things which come and go, not a lot of people are will to burn their personal image for a [potentially] uncaring company. And I'm certainly not one of them either.

[1]: https://nixos-users-against-mic-sponsorship.github.io/