Hi Petr, On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Petr Rockai <m...@mornfall.net> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > Shea Levy <s...@shealevy.com> writes: >> That's why I opened this thread, because we have people with different >> values but no one is really coming out and saying "this is what I >> want, this is why what's here now is bad". > > I am more or less a bystander and not really active, but this caught my > attention (and the thread above). Thanks for putting your 2 cents in. > Above all, the main reason I am not > active is that it seems that submitting patches is a hit-or-miss > affair. They tend to get blackholed about as often as not. So I don't > submit any: I just locally fork any package that I need to change, and > in addition I keep a number of extra packages that way; basically, I > maintain a private overlay in /etc/nixos. > > Now if there was a simple and documented way to submit patches > (*especially* new packages) that would actually work, it would probably > make my life easier, even as a bystander, by reducing the size of the > overlay significantly. > Heh, this seems like what I'm dealing with with the issues I posted. I'm making it a priority to determine and document our policies and to create more reliable communication/contribution channels. I can't promise anything since ultimately others will need to actually enact anything I come up with, but I'll do my best to help improve this situation. > Btw., I am planning a not entirely small deployment of NixOS later this > week, so I would really like to hear something positive about > sustainability. (Well, there's still time to call it off and stick to > Debian, although I do like NixOS more on general principles.) > What do you mean by sustainability here? > Yours, > Petr > > -- > id' Ash = Ash; id' Dust = Dust; id' _ = undefined Cheers, Shea _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
