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

[Bryce L Nordgren]

Arrrgh! This is the only list I'm on where "reply" means reply just to the
sender! Sorry for consistently dropping the list off of replies.

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From: Bryce L Nordgren <bnordgren at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Improving the Developer Experience in the Nix
Community
To: 7c6f434c at mail.ru




On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:

> It does look that currently it is unattainable as such on some
> questions. Consensus is good when it is feasible, but with some amount
> of differences it is too much to ask for.
>

Consensus as the only operating rule excludes Nix from the workplace.
Nearly all workplaces have nonnegotiable policies, and it's likely that
these will not be compatible. So there must always be an adaptation layer
between a more or less generic distribution and the specific policies on
site. The adaption layer is bidirectional: the distribution should be
prepared to accept and de-specialize contributions from any particular
environment, just as each participant must be prepared to specialize the
generic distribution to their needs.

An important part of Consensus is recognizing when it doesn't apply.

+1 to everything else, tho! :)

Bryce
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