On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Marc Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> :) I've been at that point (wanting to fork) in the past as well. > But I couldn't afford the costs. And I also don't think it will benefit > us all splitting the community. I tried to solve the most urgent issues > (patch submitting) by setting up gists and hope you all start using it > so that we can give it a try. Thanks for that. I'll try to find some time to look at it later. > It should be fastest because you don't > even have to use a web interface - just git fetch should be enough to > understand somewhat what's going on. > > In my case it was me needing parallel builds - and not being able to > submit patches caused me to keep local ones (rendering me unable to use > hydras binaries)... > > Currently I'd like to understand the real issues / differences and > forces and ways to collaborate before joining/ causing a fork blindly. > I agree. That's why I'm hoping people will come out and explicitly describe their concerns. > In any case having something such as "hydra" is vital. So currently > there is no choice (talking about me). > >> 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. > About my python branches: You're right. It should be still me proofing > why my branch fixes some problems.. I still haven't had time for it. > > About Haskell and Ruby etc - everybody knows that my branches exist - and > that most code can be found on github - if people are interested they > can help me test. > About those: I have a thought about how to make your solutions more appealing and possibly get them into nixpkgs, but it will have to wait until either recursive nix ( https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13 ) is available or Eelco is ready to accept imports from derivation outputs in nixpkgs (which may be made more palatable by https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/31 ). > Let's not forget that in the end we all compete with ubuntu, apple, > Microsoft etc - because we all depend on a working system (to run our > servers or write private mail) > > As always - this is only my view on it. > > Marc Weber > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
