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It's true that trust and respect between people who have poured themselves into Nix, NixOS and Nixpkgs was seriously damaged, and that this set the Nix document
by pxc 4y ago
It's true that trust and respect between people who have poured themselves into Nix, NixOS and Nixpkgs was seriously damaged, and that this set the Nix documentation efforts back.
However, the documentation team still exists and meets— there are still people dedicating much effort to improving the official and community documentation in a concerted way.
I feel that those events are more an interpersonal wound internal to the community than they are the death knell for the overall effort to renew the Nix ecosystem's documentation, or a sign that Determinate Systems is not at all invested in the health and integrity of the community and its volunteer organizations. I think turning wholly pessimistic about those things at this point would be a big overcorrection.
- xhevahir 4y agoNo one said it's a death knell. I'm saying that the documentation has sucked for a long time, and that I'm not hopeful enough of its improvement that I would be willing to do the considerable work to overcome the shoddiness of the manuals, the many contradictory tutorials, etc.