NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community - eviltoast
The community is more important than the product. — Pieter Hintjens Dear contributors to the Nix ecosystem, dear users, We recognize that the Nix community keeps growing and changing, and its governance has not been adapting accordingly. While the foundation board was never intended to lead the community, we cannot deny that it is perceived to be in that role by many, and we therefore take full accountability. We acknowledge there’s been a series of recent crises in our community, which are...

Eelco has agreed to step down from the NixOS foundation board. Over the next two weeks, a constitutional assembly will be appointed to draft a constitution to democratically govern Nix/NixOS.

  • uthredii@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Most is described here (the author probably has some amount of bias but this is the only summary I know of): https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained

    Other than that some very active contributors resigned as maintainers in support of the open letters.

    And it seems now that the community members in support of the open letters/changes have convinced the board of the foundation to agree on some things.