There was a bunch of recent drama surrounding a woke takeover and/or fork of the Nix ecosystem. Browse /r/NixOS if you want details.
I haven't followed it closely and I don't want to misrepresent, but as I understand:
- They pushed the founder of the project out of the BDFL role he'd held for 21 years, and
- They started a new "governance" process that included evicting people who disagreed with their tack/tact. It was done in the name of "inclusivity," but it sounds like the bar for excluding people they disagreed with was very low.
The Snowflake guy (Jake Hamilton) is part of the takeover crew. He's got a fork in-waiting if the takeover of mainline Nix doesn't go the way they want:
I haven't followed it closely and I don't want to misrepresent, but as I understand:
- They pushed the founder of the project out of the BDFL role he'd held for 21 years, and
- They started a new "governance" process that included evicting people who disagreed with their tack/tact. It was done in the name of "inclusivity," but it sounds like the bar for excluding people they disagreed with was very low.
The Snowflake guy (Jake Hamilton) is part of the takeover crew. He's got a fork in-waiting if the takeover of mainline Nix doesn't go the way they want:
https://aux.computer/