My original commit was somewhat more tongue in cheek, but I think this
time I'm going to be honest, rather than hiding behind humor.
I'm angry that we as a community have reached a point where we're
falling apart because people would rather accept sealioning and bad
faith arguments that belong in a 2002 mailing list, not a 2024 software
community.
Every time I dare come back to the Nix community as a more active
contributor it feels like we have a fresh wave of controversy that we
don't ever heal from, everyone just moves on, more tired, and more
broken than before. And now it's crossed a line.
I'm out.
I hope the community decides to actually try and heal. Tolerating the intolerant
for too long has consequences - and the [paradox
of tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) has
come to its natural conclusion here.
If it does heal, I'll be back with a vengeance, because it turns out replacing
Nix is hard - emotionally and technically, and I'll miss it.
~Danielle
(this commit+PR are not a place for useless debates.)
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this is outdated anyways, it needs flit to build now,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.
