Hello!
Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to skribis:
Eelco revoked all access of all regular contributors without prior
warning.
While I agree that this is a major annoyance (especially as someone who
administrates a Hydra instance and is currently unable to help fix
bugs), I believe it’s mostly the
Hi,
Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to skribis:
However, that is exactly the kind of decision to be taken in a vote of
majority. If the majority of community members feels that we should not
package non-free software (according to some definition), then that's
how it's going to be.
If I were you,
What I am saying is that after 4 years of continuous work on Nix, I have
a significant investment in this project, and changes that are made to
this project affect me personally and professionally in ways that may
not be obvious to the person who is making that change.
Which is why you can't
Hi guys,
it is my pleasure to announce the free-nix project, which aims to provide a
user- and developer-friendly free Linux distribution based on the Nix package
manager. The project is hosted on Github at
http://github.com/free-nix
and it offers two repositories:
- pkgs is a
Excerpts from Peter Simons's message of Tue Jun 26 12:45:18 +0200 2012:
project's goals, policies, and procedures.
Stating a vision or project goal is great. That has been lacking for
nixos IMHO.
Whether new mailinglists will be created or not - will be discussed
later then?
Announcing a new
Hi Peter.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote:
Hi guys,
it is my pleasure to announce the free-nix project, which aims to provide a
user- and developer-friendly free Linux distribution based on the Nix package
manager. The project is hosted on Github at
Is
Hi,
On 26/06/12 06:45, Peter Simons wrote:
it is my pleasure to announce the free-nix project, which aims to provide a
user- and developer-friendly free Linux distribution based on the Nix package
manager.
Well, forking is the most sincere form of flattery, but...
I told you a few days ago
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:34:58PM +0200, Andres Loeh wrote:
Hi Peter.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote:
Hi guys,
it is my pleasure to announce the free-nix project, which aims to provide a
user- and developer-friendly free Linux distribution based on
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:50:52AM -0400, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
On 26/06/12 06:45, Peter Simons wrote:
it is my pleasure to announce the free-nix project, which aims to provide a
user- and developer-friendly free Linux distribution based on the Nix
package
manager.
Well, forking is
Hi Peter,
On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote:
- pkgs is a database of free software packages that can be installed
with the Nix package manager.
Will proprietary or non-GPL'd software be allowed to be packaged in free-nix?
Or, what do you
Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Tue Jun 26 15:36:17 +0200 2012:
Will proprietary or non-GPL'd software be allowed to be packaged in
free-nix? Or, what do you mean by the 'free' in free-nix?
Peter said:
and then the group of
people that comes out of this process is going to constitute
Hi Shea,
- pkgs is a database of free software packages that can be installed
with the Nix package manager.
Will proprietary or non-GPL'd software be allowed to be packaged in
free-nix? Or, what do you mean by the 'free' in free-nix?
personally, I believe
Hi Andres,
If you're unhappy with the way Nix is being run, why not bring it up
and try to convince people to change the overall policy [...]?
where exactly could anyone bring anything up so that people change
NixOS policy?
Who exactly has the ability to change NixOS policy?
What exactly
Hi Peter.
where exactly could anyone bring anything up so that people change
NixOS policy?
Who exactly has the ability to change NixOS policy?
It's vaguely defined. But even if Eelco has in practice most of the
power, it's still in fact a community project, as can be observed by
the fact
Eelco revoked all access of all regular contributors without prior
warning.
Everything is still open source - so we all could fork anytime (which
you actually proofed). We all have local copies - so ...
But its also known (to me) that Eelco started getting more and more
interested in git very
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes:
Hi Peter,
On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote:
- pkgs is a database of free software packages that can be installed
with the Nix package manager.
Will proprietary or non-GPL'd software be allowed to be
This kind of problem absolutely should be reported as an issue in GitHub or
elsewhere.
For me as for still a pretty outside observer it seems that the main
problem of NixOS for now is lack of… let's call it specifications. I'm sure
all those issues will be addressed sooner or later when we
I've just collected those two items here.
https://nixos.org/wiki/TODO_-_What_is_missing_in_the_nix_community%3F
If more popup add them.
Let's keep in mind that nixos is young - and that there might be
additional requirements tomorrow. Thus let's think carefully about which
policies we need - the
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on behalf of Marc Weber [marco-owe...@gmx.de]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:07 PM
To: nix-dev
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Announcing free-nix: the free Linux distribution based
on the Nix package manager
Eelco revoked all access of all regular contributors without prior
warning.
Everything is still open
In the Linux kernel development process, the only official tree is Linus'
kernel tree. Linus only works with a small group of people each maintaining
a subsystem of the kernel, such as the memory manager, I/O scheduler etc.
These subsystem maintainers have their own tree (which they regularly
Hi,
On 26/06/12 18:58, Bryce L Nordgren wrote:
Seen from this perspective, the nixpkgs/nixos repositories are rather
monolithic: You'd have to manually assemble a complete Nix expression in a
directory on your system, composed of some free-nix expressions and some
NixOS expressions. Then
Hi,
On 26/06/12 12:02, Peter Simons wrote:
Eelco revoked all access of all regular contributors without prior
warning.
The Git migration has been going on for a while, so in that sense the actual
switchover shouldn't be *that* unexpected. I then asked for input on the
desired development
Hi Eelco,
if you bear with me for a second, I'd like to explain where I'm coming
from.
I have contributed to Nix regularly for the last 4 years. According to
the stats at Github, I've submitted an average of 1.6 commits per day
over that entire period of time. I'm not saying that because want to
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