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.

  • starmanEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    I wonder if the “aux” fork will continue to exist after that.

    Probably not. And that would save potential users from that terrible, unsearchable name.

    • onlinepersonaEnglish
      33·
      8 months ago

      😂 It is not the best name, that’s for sure. But I was hoping it would allow different technical decisions for example like getting off of github.

      Anti Commercial-AI license