Roadmap: Phase 1

for starters, the title alone is saying lix is the future of cppnix. this implies that our fork is not

i guess this would be some careful wording, but given the context it doesn’t at all seem like it’s the intention.

for example:

emphasis on that last sentence. lix resolving this “entirely” heavily implies that the CLI sig will no longer be needing help in maintaining a cpp codebase (nix)

this is continued with

this continues the idea of us no longer maintaining a nix fork and moves that goalpost a bit to just a wrapper possibly

i would also like to note the topic this was posted in, which was the steering committee. i feel like if this was just a link to share, it would’ve been posted elsewhere. everything here - at least for me - seems to say “we are no longer forking nix” outside of the occasional “may” or “can”

if i am incorrect in this assumption though, i would like it to be explicitly stated. i’m very sure others in the community would also mistake a post like this in the steering community topic as a technical decision, rather than just a regular conversation about maybe dropping the idea of a nix fork

this also doesn’t address what may be a bigger issue here: the leader of this project quickly suggesting massive revisions to our roadmap after being “extremely hesitant” to any attempt from the community

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