[Nix-dev] The Church of Suckless NixOS is looking for followers

[Matthias Beyer]

On 18-03-2017 22:25:18, Jookia wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:32:18AM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > But then you have to think about why these people are doing it.  
> > Clearly because they think they can do something better - which is 
> > fine IMO.
> > 
> > But if a fork is necessary this also means their voices were not heard 
> > when they announced that things are not optimal for them - which means 
> > bad community management. If they did not tell the community what they 
> > dislike, though, I fully agree with you.
> 
> The thing that bothered me a little about your email is the assumption that a
> fork is what happens when there's trouble. I don't think that's always the case,
> and now might be a good example. Without working relationships to hold our
> projects together, we get forks. This isn't a good or bad thing, it just is:
> Often it's how projects start before pull requests happen. The *why* is what we
> need to focus on. Sometimes there's fights and drama that destroy relationships
> and leave a fork in the road, or sometimes there's new contributors who have a
> fork but want to get it mainlined.
> 
> In this case, there's two important things to note here:
> 
> - There's no reason why we're not working together, so we might as well try to
>   build a relationship and lessen the fork of what we don't share in common.
> 
> - We need both parties to want to work together. NixOS can have the best
>   community management in the universe, but if the other half of the
>   relationship doesn't want this then a fork will be there.
> 
> This is the first I've heard of this Suckless NixOS project, and to me since I
> don't see a reason why there's a fork it means opportunity.

Never thought about what you wrote there. Thanks for the new 
perspective!

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