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! -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Kind regards, Matthias Beyer Consider switching to free software. It adds value to your life. https://www.gnu.org/
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