[Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the Nix Community

[Michael Raskin]

> that things can be improved without fracturing the already-small group. 

It looks like the main project will be conservative enough to be simple
to pull... A small fork will probably only change things that bother 
someone. Overall, this makes believable that the fork will be able to 
pull all changes from the remaining project, and the old part will be
able to pick any changes from the fork that it agrees with.

I think that all arguments that explain why this exchange will not be
feasible should be mentioned - this can both uncover different values
and help to motivate people on keeping the community less split.

>	a) Those who have concerns need to explicitly bring them up in a way aimed toward fixing the problem while taking into account the reasons it happened in the first place, rather than trying to place blame. Particularly important here is that people recognize that any change will have a cost and that different people in the project will have different opinions on the relative weighting of the costs and benefits.

Unfortunately, after the history with parallel builds I have no idea
what happens. I cannot comprehend what values/fears lead to promoting
what finally got committed.

>	b) Those who propose alternatives need to be willing to step up and do the work necessary to implement those alternatives themselves. For example, if you think too many emails to the list get dropped with no response, you need to be willing to respond to as many of the emails as possible.

I think it is a bad example - many emails going unreplied are a piece of
evidence that we need not to discuss every step. 

So people who say that many ignored email are bad are those very people
who say that we don't have to have to reply to everything. Maybe just 
try everything and simply keep all unproblematic changes. My personal 
pet grudge about gnutls upstream says that probably everything less
destructive than GNU TLS update is not too problematic unless someone 
explicitly complains.