I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here
Background Context for Anyone Out of the Loop
(newest to oldest news - top to bottom):
- NixOS Fork Announced by Jake Hamilton -
- Reddit post - 15 contributors left Nixpkgs maintenance
- Programming.dev post - Jon Ringer’s suspension
As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):
So that’s how it ends
You see if it was closed sourced it would be the end, but because its open and is actually really useful, it’ll be picked up by a new team
Oh, haskell is still open
https://github.com/ghc/ghc
What closed source projects were ruined by politics like this?
This was 4 days ago, I didn’t have to look very far:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/27/google-project-nimbus-israel
Firing talent is a great way to bork a project.