In the past I was very active with Python packaging.
For several years now I was hardly around as maintainer,
so it does not make sense I am listed as a maintainer for
these makes. Looking back, I should have removed myself
as maintainer already much longer ago. Anyway, better late
than never.
It's been a fun ride, and I do intend to occasionally contribute
to Nixpkgs, but not in the same way it once was.
My original commit was somewhat more tongue in cheek, but I think this
time I'm going to be honest, rather than hiding behind humor.
I'm angry that we as a community have reached a point where we're
falling apart because people would rather accept sealioning and bad
faith arguments that belong in a 2002 mailing list, not a 2024 software
community.
Every time I dare come back to the Nix community as a more active
contributor it feels like we have a fresh wave of controversy that we
don't ever heal from, everyone just moves on, more tired, and more
broken than before. And now it's crossed a line.
I'm out.
I hope the community decides to actually try and heal. Tolerating the intolerant
for too long has consequences - and the [paradox
of tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) has
come to its natural conclusion here.
If it does heal, I'll be back with a vengeance, because it turns out replacing
Nix is hard - emotionally and technically, and I'll miss it.
~Danielle
(this commit+PR are not a place for useless debates.)
Every time I decide to commit additional time to contributing to nix,
quite a few "concerned" members come out, either to decry a ban on
bigotry and fascism in 2021, or to declare support for minority groups
in Nix discriminatory, or a number of other incidents that are not worth
recounting in this leaving message.
To avoid any ambiguity, my reasoning is similar to pr306702, pr307033, and
several others who felt actively made unwelcome or outright harassed out
of the Nix project.
Yall won't miss me. The packages I leave orphaned are trivially updated as dependents need the new versions.
But passively endorsing the direction this organization and its leadership is something I can't do.
To those who still have faith in turning this around, you da real MVP 🖖
Please accept this letter as formal notice of my resignation from the
position of "Community Member" at DeterminateSystems.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work in this position - I
have thoroughly enjoyed being frustrated and saddened whenever
interacting with the DetSys community. However, I've decided it is time for me
to move on to another community that will hopefully be less tolerant of
willful hate and sexism.
~Danielle
Signed-off-by: Danielle Lancashire <dani@builds.terrible.systems>
