Fr even some of the first few comments are totally unhinged

Post title is misleading as he’s not really the one causing the drama.

The mods gave him a 6-week suspension, and now it’s up, so he requested his access back. Nothing unusual

The drama comes from people who just hate the guy and are screaming about letting him back. His response to that was then very cordial and just calling out them for being to aggressive.

I’m not taking a stance on whether his suspension should become a ban or whether he’s gonna change or whatever; I’m just saying it’s simply false to say he’s continuing to cause the drama and problems when all he did was ask to get his commit access back and tell his haters they’re being assholes

Eelco is also leftist so no

There’s a difference between a leftist and a left-wing extremist like the handful of people involved with the open letter

also the maintainers are what make nix be nix so yes, it’s has the potencial to affect a lot of people

Yes of course, but the maintainers aren’t really affect either.

What I’m saying is there are only a few maintainers upset right now, and if the tide turns (which it looks like it has) only a few maintainers on the other side will be upset.

My point is overall only a few maintainers will be upset, like 10-20 or so out of thousands, so the status quo will stay the same.

has very good arguments(with proofs)

Not really

that don’t have any correlation with left or right

Strong correlation with far-left extremist ideas, actually

you need to give a good argument if you want people to belive in you

Those writing the open letter didn’t give good arguments, so I don’t need to either

What I’m saying is that there will be no change in how well they are maintained.

It’s a hostile takeover by a handful of politically far-left individuals, stealing power away from Nix’s creator, Eelco, framed by them as “giving power to the community,” when they really just want to establish their own oligarchy and run moderation their way.

Just like Eelco’s way of governing, it will likely have 0 effect on 99% of people using NixOS, but a handful of maintainers will be mad. Nothing will change for those out of the loop.

Unnecessary