In the past I was very active with Python packaging.
For several years now I was hardly around as maintainer,
so it does not make sense I am listed as a maintainer for
these makes. Looking back, I should have removed myself
as maintainer already much longer ago. Anyway, better late
than never.
It's been a fun ride, and I do intend to occasionally contribute
to Nixpkgs, but not in the same way it once was.
My original commit was somewhat more tongue in cheek, but I think this
time I'm going to be honest, rather than hiding behind humor.
I'm angry that we as a community have reached a point where we're
falling apart because people would rather accept sealioning and bad
faith arguments that belong in a 2002 mailing list, not a 2024 software
community.
Every time I dare come back to the Nix community as a more active
contributor it feels like we have a fresh wave of controversy that we
don't ever heal from, everyone just moves on, more tired, and more
broken than before. And now it's crossed a line.
I'm out.
I hope the community decides to actually try and heal. Tolerating the intolerant
for too long has consequences - and the [paradox
of tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) has
come to its natural conclusion here.
If it does heal, I'll be back with a vengeance, because it turns out replacing
Nix is hard - emotionally and technically, and I'll miss it.
~Danielle
(this commit+PR are not a place for useless debates.)
I am deeply saddened at the fact that I need to do this. I have no
interest in re-litigating everything that has happened over the past
weeks and months, but I want to make my position(s) extremely clear:
The thought of any of my work contributing to someone's death by drone
makes me feel physically ill.
Recent communications from senior members of the NixOS community have
made it clear that leadership is unaware or uninterested in the basics
of how to run and moderate a community in a way that is resilient to bad
actors. The recent post by @edolstra is tone-deaf and gives me no
confidence that the Nix/NixOS community is a place that I want to remain
involved in going forward. I am thus choosing to remove myself from such
a community.
I also hereby resign from the ACME team.
See also: #307033
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Feel free to remove the following packages, which were essentially personal tools:
- apc-temp-fetch:
this is outdated anyways, it needs flit to build now,
see also: 53bcaab3e9/net-analyzer/APC-Temp-fetch/APC-Temp-fetch-0.0.9.ebuild
- libowlevelzs
- zs-apc-spdu-ctl
- zs-wait4host
- zstxtns-utils
Every time I decide to commit additional time to contributing to nix,
quite a few "concerned" members come out, either to decry a ban on
bigotry and fascism in 2021, or to declare support for minority groups
in Nix discriminatory, or a number of other incidents that are not worth
recounting in this leaving message.
To avoid any ambiguity, my reasoning is similar to pr306702, pr307033, and
several others who felt actively made unwelcome or outright harassed out
of the Nix project.
Yall won't miss me. The packages I leave orphaned are trivially updated as dependents need the new versions.
But passively endorsing the direction this organization and its leadership is something I can't do.
To those who still have faith in turning this around, you da real MVP 🖖
Please accept this letter as formal notice of my resignation from the
position of "Community Member" at DeterminateSystems.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work in this position - I
have thoroughly enjoyed being frustrated and saddened whenever
interacting with the DetSys community. However, I've decided it is time for me
to move on to another community that will hopefully be less tolerant of
willful hate and sexism.
~Danielle
Signed-off-by: Danielle Lancashire <dani@builds.terrible.systems>
Also updates my information and contact info.
I no longer use The Hedgehog as my github username or online presence
username, so this fixes that. It also matches my github username, so it
should be easier for others to mention me if needed.
