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 imply that the value of anyone's contribution ought to be measured by the number of commits. All I'm saying is that I have been very involved in Nix. I have dedicated a lot of time working on this project. By now, I have installed Nix on well over a hundred different machines. Every machine I own runs NixOS. Every server I rely on runs NixOS. Every workstation I use has Nix installed. I am a very happy Nix user, and I admire the work you have done creating it. I want Nix to be successful. Some of the machines that I use cannot compile big packages. So I've relied on Hydra to provide binaries for them. Furthermore, I've been relying on my ability to modify the package set that Hydra builds and provides binaries for. I sort of assumed: if there is some problem, I'll commit a fix, and a couple of hours later I'll have binaries for every machine. Arguably, it was a bad idea to rely on the infrastructure from Delft to that extend. But, well, it worked great for the last couple of years, so I didn't even realize the extend to which I am relying on it. Then, one day, I wake up and find my access to that infrastructure is gone. I can no longer commit, and consequently I can't utilize Hydra either. Duh! If I would have known that this is going to happen, say 1 day in advance, then I could have set up Hydra myself and make sure that my working environment isn't affected in any way, but I had no chance to do that because my access to the Nix infrastructure disappeared without prior warning. 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. Now, it is true that the move to Github was announced well ahead of time and everyone knew about it. However, no-one I have talked to knew that this move would make all developer accounts disappear. That detail feels significant, and it would have been a good idea to communicate that fact to make sure everyone in the community has a chance to prepare for that situation. I appreciate that you intended to try a different development model. That's fine with me, but it would have been really nice if we -- the developers -- could have been informed about a sweeping change such as this one before it actually happens. Can you see why I am kind-of unhappy right now? Can you emphasize with my feeling of disappointment? Or do you think that my perception is unreasonable? Take care, Peter _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
