I am absolutely certain that NuttX will not "die" without xiaomi, and
would have not died.
It is a mature project with its own intrinsic existence and worth.
it will certainly go slower, and that is probably not bad. Forced growth
is not a sane way forward.
I have the impression that nuttx maintenance has only been daily stress
to keep up with xiaomi contribution stream.
It will be much more manageable now.
Like, it would allow me to actually contribute again. We made some
stuff, Smart cards, and SNMP mainly.
But at our dayjob NuttX is a small project, we have little time to
contribute. And reviewing dozen of pull requests every day is NOT possible.
Sebastien
On 2/4/26 11:31, raiden00pl wrote:
Maybe it's worth contacting the Apache Foundation for help? Could they
offer some
advice on how to handle problems we have here? Like how to handle
situations where
contributions exceed the community's capacity to process them?
I think there are many open source projects bigger than NuttX, that deal
with such
problems with systemic approach. We're not the first project to have such
problems. I'm sure the Apache Foundation is full of great people with
experience in
managing big projects, maybe it's worth asking for advice?
Of course, I disagree with Sebastian. For me, Xiaomi leaving the project
would be
a sign of the death of NuttX. To be clear: Xiaomi pays me so I'm biased,
but still
about 90% of my contributions to this project were made in my free time,
for free.
It's sad to say but [my opinion now] without Xiaomi, this project would
have been dead
long ago and I personally would lose any interest in NuttX.
śr., 4 lut 2026 o 11:09 chao an <[email protected]> napisał(a):
@Sebastien Lorquet <[email protected]>
I’ve had just about enough of your toxic, hypocritical nonsense. Let’s cut
through your garbage and talk facts:
1. 1. Xiaomi’s contributions to NuttX are undeniable.
Their work has driven real progress, fixed critical issues, and expanded
the project’s capabilities. If you’re so unhappy with the community, no
one
is forcing you to stay—feel free to leave and stop poisoning the space
with
your negativity.
And for the record: I work at ByteDance (TikTok), so I have zero
affiliation with Xiaomi. This isn’t a defense of a company—it’s a
defense
of basic fairness and respect for people who actually contribute to this
project.
2. *2. Let’s talk about your track record.*
- 90% of your commits are trivial, history-driven busywork. Your
so-called “contributions” are negligible at best.
- When was the last time you reviewed a core code change, or
contributed to the CI/CD pipeline that keeps this project running?
You’ve
done nothing to move NuttX forward, yet you love to sit on the
sidelines
and trash people who *actually* do the work.
- You have zero credibility to judge anyone else’s contributions.
3. 3. Shut your mouth already.
Every time I see your bitter, passive-aggressive posts, I feel sick.
You’re nothing but a keyboard warrior, a technical fraud who loves to
run
his mouth while contributing nothing of value. Your constant negativity
isn’t constructive—it’s just sad.
If you can’t contribute positively or keep your toxic opinions to yourself,
do us all a favor and disappear from this community. We don’t need your
kind here.
Sebastien Lorquet <[email protected]> 于2026年2月4日周三 17:33写道：
Hello again,
I have warned about this problem for YEARS AND YEARS and it happened
EXACTLY as I had seen.
It is a good thing to be honest, that will reduce the amount of work
from nuttx maintainers.
If openvela (as I understand) has good features added by xiaomi, it is
the task of nuttx to upstream them as they wish, in a calm and positive
way, by taking enough time to think about the design and structure,
without all the stress and speed of a commercial corporate project.
NuttX is not a commercial project. it has no targets to reach and no
investors to please.
It is a much nicer way to work and I think it is better like that.
It is a good thing to have less xiaomi contributions forced in nuttx.
I think we can thank them for their past contributions that made nuttx
grow, but it is also a good thing to realize when it must stop (eg,
before NuttX becomes XiaomiX).
Sebastien
On 2/4/26 10:11, raiden00pl wrote:
I think the root cause is completely different. The real problem here
is
Xiaomi's
attempt to add changes from its entire annual development cycle. Year
of
changes
from a large development team to an open source community with fewer
than
10 active
members. The community is flooded with changes it can't process, and
Xiaomi
is
blocked because they can't add further changes based on unmerged
changes.
The tension is rising, and we have what we have: a disaster. This
approach
is
an obvious recipe for failure.
This approach hasn't worked recently, and it's not working now. The
Xiaomi
team
is growing much faster than the NuttX community. The number of changes
from
Xiaomi
is growing, and it has now reached absurd proportions.
If these changes were added gradually, without waiting for the end of
the
year,
the problem would be much smaller.
