In the past I was very active with Python packaging.
For several years now I was hardly around as maintainer,
so it does not make sense I am listed as a maintainer for
these makes. Looking back, I should have removed myself
as maintainer already much longer ago. Anyway, better late
than never.
It's been a fun ride, and I do intend to occasionally contribute
to Nixpkgs, but not in the same way it once was.
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>
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.
This is actually long overdue... :o I only maintained LLVM for a while
because it became necessary to add new versions more quickly for
updating Chromium. LLVM was pretty unmaintained at that time and I'm
super glad that it's in very good hands now (thanks y'all!) :)
