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Jon Ringer, a significant contributor to the NixOS project, has been banned
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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Edit: turns out this story goes way beyond Jon, all of Nix is in flux right now. My personal experience is kind of irrelevant.
Edit edit: just read this: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552
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As a first-hand account; Jon has been the nicest of all the maintainers I've had interactions with ( ~7), probably followed by Ryan Mulligan. The only reason I remember Jon's name (I usually just recognize maintainers by their profile pictures) is because a couple years ago, as part of this thread I was reading this github issue with a really rude/attacking user. I remember reading Jon's response and thinking "This is one of the most patient FOSS devs on all of Github".
However, take ^that as-is, because I am not up to date on anything recent. I just wanted to provide the small bit of insight I do have.
Here's some of my interactions for those who like to judge for themselves:
This reeks of astroturf. That's a lot of effort to put into saying absolutely nothing of substance. I cannot assume in good faith impartiality.
I don't know what AstroTurf means. Jon might be in the wrong, and I'll edit my comment to put bad stuff at the top once I'm caught up. I'm just giving the info I have. If you have some let me know.
If AstroTurf means a bot, check my history here and on Github (jeff-hykin)