Should jonringer just fork nixos? RingOS?
Should jonringer just fork nixos? RingOS?
And others like him that have been ostracized. His mere presence seems to bring out quite negative emotions in people.
So what is this about?
Why would NixOS need a fork? Something happened in the community?
Uff, I don't have any links and haven't been tuned in too much, but amid all the toxicity on the forums, the nixos foundation got funding from some defense contractor and that kicked off a shitstorm. The forums became even more toxic than before with pro and anti defense contractors, which led to an open letter attacking the creator of nix and threatening with a fork.
Amongst all of that a nixos maintainer called jonringer became a polarising character and was banned (?) temporarily. He recently wanted to join again and that kicked up the dust again and it's likely he won't be able to contribute anymore.
A bunch of stuff happened in between like the creator of nix stepping down from his position (Benevolent Dictator For Life or something? dunno), many maintainers quitting, the foundation kind of giving in to the anti defense contractor crowd but the crowd not being satisfied and the pro-camp neither. A fork called auxolotl was created, but they don't want jonringer in it either, and probably other stuff.
It feels like jonringer has a few people behind him but I don't know if he would have enough support to fork nixos 🤷