forgot an important point: I think it is more fruitful to think of the system between us maintainers being anarchy, not democracy and therefore we should be aware of and work with consensus.
For a nice description and one implementation of consensus, see: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Consensus Noisebridge, is a San Francisco based hackerspace working with the one rule of "Being excellent to each other". If I duplicate things at the moment, I'm sorry. I do my best to keep up but cannot cope with the amount of mail right now. I will catch up for sure. On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:10:27 +0200, Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:30:28 -0400, Shea Levy <s...@shealevy.com> wrote: > > (..) Please, if you have a vision for what the nix projects could be > > but aren't, share it. Otherwise it's highly unlikely that the nix you > > want to be will come into existence. > > I'd like it to be (not claiming that it isn't already): > > - easy to package new stuff / update packages > * for maintainers (people having commit access to nixpkgs and nixos) > directly possible > * for new contributors via github pull request or git > format-patch/send-email > > - easy to maintain patch sets (published or local) > * currently easy against most recent master > * to minimize deviation from channel to have maximum binary support > via hydra, tags are needed for channel releases (on Eelco's todo > list) > > - easy to find: > * how to install (cd/usb/other_linux) > * where to file bugs (nixos vs nixpkgs) > + can we move tickets between nixos and nixpkgs trackers? > * how to contribute > > - in-time security updates and instructions, needs (rough thoughts > only): > * enough maintainers to handle updates and inform about eventual data > updates (like needed for the most recent pycrypto weakness right > now) > * maybe support through automatic scanning of security announcement > lists and notification of maintainers if there seems need for action > * tags for channel releases (see above) to base security updates on > plus merging into master > * higher priority for security update builds on hydra > > - support for more platforms, finally I'd like all my devices (phone, > laptop, server, tablets, ...) to run on nixos > > - at least a yearly Nix/NixOS meetup/sprint/conference. I think frequent > in person meetings would help to avoid miscommunications and drive > further development > > - I think it would be great to see a company providing support/services > for a nixpkgs/nixos (derived) distribution > > - increase presence of nixos. I think it is the best we have seen with > respect to system management / deployment and it has big potential for > creating well-defined reproducable development environments, but most > people don't know about it. > > - (impure) development environments for nasty pieces of software. To > work right away on software that relies on a lot of things being > present in /usr it would be great to have isolated environments where > one profile is linked to /usr. While working on the software you can > then purified it step by step until this is not necessary anymore. > lxc[1] might help with that. The point is to enable you to continue to > be productive on a piece of software without first spending a week > explaining different build systems the concept of purity. > > regards > florian > > [1] http://lxc.teegra.net/ > -- > Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> > GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 > Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net > IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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