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exuA to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

discourse.nixos.org

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NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

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exuA to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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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...

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    Active discussion under way on !nix@programming.dev

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    TLDR: Sorry, we love you, we are doing good things now.

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    I do not like distributed, community-driven leadership. The more leadership is shared, the more arguments there are, and the less gets done.

    I would rather have a strong dictatorship focused on technical merit, to be deposed in the future for another dictator, again, based on technical merit.

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      go use propertiary software then

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        I do, thanks

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      I think Debian might be a successful democracy in open source.

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