I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here
Background Context for Anyone Out of the Loop
(newest to oldest news - top to bottom):
- NixOS Fork Announced by Jake Hamilton -
- Reddit post - 15 contributors left Nixpkgs maintenance
- Programming.dev post - Jon Ringer’s suspension
As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):
So that’s how it ends
You see if it was closed sourced it would be the end, but because its open and is actually really useful, it’ll be picked up by a new team
As an outsider looking in, it looks like it’s a bit of a wipe the slate clean governance and moderation wise as voted on by the community.
So, now over the coming days the community will in essence vote on whether they will allow sponsorships from the military industrial complex.
@jakehamilton@hachyderm.io why “aux”? Will that name be put up to a vote?
@onlinepersona @recursive_recursion I don’t think we need to spend time bikeshedding the name. As for the reasons I chose it:
- it is short
- similar to nix
- is short for “auxiliary” which can be used to mean “another”, “additional”, “secondary”, “separate”; so it being a separate nix ecosystem lines upDoesn’t have to be bikeshedding. It’s 2 steps:
- collect proposals
- vote on proposals
But it’s your baby, do what you like.