I am deeply saddened at the fact that I need to do this. I have no
interest in re-litigating everything that has happened over the past
weeks and months, but I want to make my position(s) extremely clear:
The thought of any of my work contributing to someone's death by drone
makes me feel physically ill.
Recent communications from senior members of the NixOS community have
made it clear that leadership is unaware or uninterested in the basics
of how to run and moderate a community in a way that is resilient to bad
actors. The recent post by @edolstra is tone-deaf and gives me no
confidence that the Nix/NixOS community is a place that I want to remain
involved in going forward. I am thus choosing to remove myself from such
a community.
I also hereby resign from the ACME team.
See also: #307033
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Feel free to remove the following packages, which were essentially personal tools:
- apc-temp-fetch:
this is outdated anyways, it needs flit to build now,
see also: 53bcaab3e9/net-analyzer/APC-Temp-fetch/APC-Temp-fetch-0.0.9.ebuild
- libowlevelzs
- zs-apc-spdu-ctl
- zs-wait4host
- zstxtns-utils
Every time I decide to commit additional time to contributing to nix,
quite a few "concerned" members come out, either to decry a ban on
bigotry and fascism in 2021, or to declare support for minority groups
in Nix discriminatory, or a number of other incidents that are not worth
recounting in this leaving message.
To avoid any ambiguity, my reasoning is similar to pr306702, pr307033, and
several others who felt actively made unwelcome or outright harassed out
of the Nix project.
Those are not maintained anymore by upstream Nix[1]. In fact, Nix
intends to only maintain
> * The latest release
> * The version used in the stable NixOS release, which is announced in the NixOS release notes.
Given that security issues and regressions happen, for instance latest
2.17 unconditionally rejects leading dots in store-paths, a regression
fixed in other Nix versions[2].
I didn't touch
* 2.3 since there's still a rather large user-base and it has a special
role as the last pre-flakes release.
* 2.19 - 2.22: I'm not really sure what the next stable nix for nixpkgs
will be and at least 2.19 seems to work relatively well for me.
Anyways, touching those seems way more controversial than touching
2.10-2.17, so I'll skip that for now.
[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/release-notes/
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10497
Yall won't miss me. The packages I leave orphaned are trivially updated as dependents need the new versions.
But passively endorsing the direction this organization and its leadership is something I can't do.
To those who still have faith in turning this around, you da real MVP 🖖
