Yes, which is why it was a stupid thing to say. If our enemies simply capitulated we wouldn't have to wage this war.
>Not sure why, you don't give any reasoning, but ok.
Because one of the concerns in the letter is that he has _informal_ authority. By the way, if you go to https://nixos.org/community/teams/nix/ it says "Team lead" so he does have more formal authority. A title he added himself by the way.
>It sounds to me like the open letter should have listed specific action items they wanted to see, if they wanted to be taken seriously.
The letter said they want Eelco to give up his leadership roles. Then it lists why, which you don't need to read the contents for, just the table of contents is enough. So if he doesn't want to resign, there is for example "Ignoring people then relitigating", which he could work on trying not to do. "Avoiding giving away authority" is another. There are many items like this. Not resigning and choosing to just work on specific concerns may not make all the signatories happy, but it would probably be acceptable to some.
>Doesn't this by definition mean he doesn't need to do anything else? I'm confused.
Yes it does mean that he needs to do something. Sometimes in a leadership position people question what you're doing, and there are ways to address their concerns without changing what you're doing. If you succeed then your community can stay together. Most projects benefit from being larger.
>I don't understand how you can expect someone to "reach out" to invisible people who won't make their concerns heard clearly (this letter is not that IMO).
I mean reach out in a sense of: acknowledging that some things may need to change in a way that reaches people. For example in a blog post. I don't mean send people private messages. I don't understand what you mean by "invisible people". Clearly Eelco wrote a response to a long letter that has signatories. So which invisible people?
>I don't see where specific wrongdoing is called out, or any suggestions for improvement.
I think you're being deliberately obtuse. Specific wrongdoing is called out in the original letter and you may not agree that it is wrongdoing but it is specific. You may disagree that improvement is necessary or that the suggestions are any good but that doesn't make the suggestions not exist.
>What is "this"? How has this directly affected you? To me there is no "this" or even a "him" without very specific concerns called out.
"This" is drama. It has not directly affected me because I don't use Nix, but the project requires contributors who for example package software. Seeing the #4 contributor to Nixpkgs, and several others leave, as well as the indefinite "experimental" status of Flakes, makes me question the longevity of the project.
