On Saturday, March 16th, 2024 at 10:52 AM, Ian Eure <i...@retrospec.tv> wrote:
> > > Hi Guixy people, > [...] > I was also distressed to see how poorly they treated a developer > who wished to update their name: > https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/4968198-the-software-heritag > https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5052044-the-software-heritag I read these posts with interest. It is worth noting that the complained-about organization, Inria, supports Guix as well & has close historical ties to the project (although it is does not have decision-making power here AFAIK.) It is a shame that Inria have treated this matter with such apparent disregard. I have heard folks in the Guix maintenance sphere claim that we never rewrite git history in Guix, as a matter of policy. I believe we should revisit that policy (is it actually written anywhere?) with an eye towards possible exceptions, and develop a mechanism for securely maintaining continuity of Guix installations after history has been rewritten so that we maintain this as a technical possibility in the future, even if we should choose to use it sparingly. Ryan
