I have the distinct impression that Eelco neither wants to promote nor discourage NixOS evangelism... which I totally understand. More newbies means more noise but OTOH means more eyeballs and developers.
In any case, +1 from me. Would be nice to have more than 1 person in the interview though... Preferably an oldtimer like ikwildrpepper, sander or shlevy... Wout. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Ertugrul Söylemez <ert...@gmx.de> wrote: > Oops, this should go to the list. Some day I'll learn to press C-R > instead of C-r. =) > > > Thor Arne Hopland <thor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I made this post on the LAS Reddit page because I thought they needed > > a better introduction. > > > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/27xoqd/nixos_a_challanger_appears/ > > > > I hope I represented NixOS correctly :/ > > I could nitpick (some details are wrong), but your presentation is fair. > In particular I liked the way you presented the Nix suite as a fully > fledged (continuous) deployment solution rather than a mere package > manager. I don't want Nix to stand alongside apt, pacman and > Portage. =) > > > > But anwyays, they've said they've tried to contact you many > > times. They want one of the NixOS developers to come on the show and > > talk about NixOS! This is a great marketing oppertunity, you > > guys. Tons of people watch Linux Action Show and it might lead to us > > getting more pullers, committers and packagers (we need moar). > > Well, this is controversial. Of course I want NixOS to gain popularity, > because that would get us at least new Nixpkgs developers. On the other > hand the lack of large-scale success has helped us preserve and maintain > the soundness of the system. As SPJ once said (about Haskell): "Avoid > success at all costs!". > > Yet I can't deny that I would like to see an LAS episode featuring > NixOS. I'm not a core developer, but I contribute stuff from time to > time (patches, snippets and support on Freenode), and I use both NixOS > and the Nix suite to most of their potential. I can both praise and > complain about them a lot. =) > > I'll offer my soul, if nobody else has time, on the following > conditions: > > * +1 from Eelco, > > * more +1s than -1s from the Nixpkgs committers (note: 0 ≯ 0). > > Whoami: I'm ertes on Github and mm_freak on Freenode. Some of you may > know me as @ertesx, too. > > > Greets, > Ertugrul > > -- > Ertugrul Söylemez <ert...@gmx.de> > > Key-ID: F9B5212A > Fingerprint: 8D89 7AC9 21CF F868 F074 9058 30CB D56F F9B5 212A > > > -- > Ertugrul Söylemez <ert...@gmx.de> > > Key-ID: F9B5212A > Fingerprint: 8D89 7AC9 21CF F868 F074 9058 30CB D56F F9B5 212A > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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