I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here
Background Context for Anyone Out of the Loop
(newest to oldest news - top to bottom):
- NixOS Fork Announced by Jake Hamilton -
- Reddit post - 15 contributors left Nixpkgs maintenance
- Programming.dev post - Jon Ringer’s suspension
As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):
You see if it was closed sourced it would be the end, but because its open and is actually really useful, it’ll be picked up by a new team