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 wrote:
> Oops, this should go to the list. Some day I'll learn to press C-R
> instead of C-r. =)
>
>
> Thor Arne Hopland 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
>
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