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I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here

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As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):

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[โ€“] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It happened: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552 Lemmy post

We'll see exactly what this means. But I would love if it means that the project manages to continue without the huge amount of confusion and disruption that would come from forks fighting for becoming the canonical source.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

Unlikely. I expect it will mean that the infighting that led to this point will continue as the core compass of the project has been exorcised.

As an outsider it appears that nix is killing itself over nothing.