[forgot reply-all again, perhaps the mailman mailing list could be configured differently to stop this from happening?]
On 30 June 2014 18:34, Ertugrul Söylemez <[email protected]> wrote: > Steven Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > I only knew about nixos_org. I didn't know about the tips a/c. Thing is, > > this is about the package system. Not the Linux distribution. Not about > > tips. Does that make sense? > > > > Someone already replied to one of my tweets saying that they hadn't > > understood that you could use Nix as a package manager separate from > > NixOS. Where there is 1, there are many. I rest your honour. > > I'm a bit torn here. One one hand I agree with you that there should be > more resources for Nix itself as a development and deployment system. > On the other hand I agree with Oliver that at our current community size > fragmentation could become a serious problem. > Fair enough. I didn't make the account to make tweets from but to mention in my tweets — just have some of created accounts for, say, Simon Peyton Jones, even though Simon doesn't actually operate that account. > My two cents is that at this point it's probably better to post this > information via @nixostips. However, you could use your new account for > retweets from the more well known sources, whenever you find something > relevant to non-NixOS users. That should make the information flow > sufficiently hierarchial to avoid fragmentation or at least make it > apparent to followers. > I'd be happy to operate the account this way or as I said in my original post to hand it on to someone in the Nix organisation if they prefer to do it. I'm happy to watch for Nix package system related tweets and retweet them from @nixpkg. When it comes to following folks, I'm taking the policy of following anyone who follows @nixpkg. I'll also follow @nixostips as I didn't know about that one until recently. > In either case the name @nixpkg is very unfortunate and especially > misleading to existing NixOS users (because of an actual project called > Nixpkgs). A name like @nixtips would be more appropriate, should you > decide to keep maintaining it. > Well, I wanted @nix of course. Perhaps I can organise that with the owner of @nix :). However, I really do prefer @nixpkg because it is not for tips, it is for mentioning Nix in a tweet. The usual way to do that is to type '@nix' and then wait for the autocompletion to show you the correct account to select. When there wasn't one for Nix the package system, I created one. Sorry to be a pain. Steve.
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