Comment by traverseda
1 year ago
It appears the bulk of the actual requested changes are here: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
When there's stuff like this going on, I don't think it's helpful to try and do a full review of who did what wrong, or what the hypothetical motivations of any of these groups of people are, but instead to just review the actual proposed policy changes.
Yes and no.
It's often useful to know the motivation / reason behind a change. Especially a policy change. Maybe the change can subtly enable harmful stuff you don't see coming if you don't have the context around the change.
You also want to know the intents being a change to know if the change actually works towards the intended goal while reviewing. Or else how do you check if the change help?
It would be like a code change that doesn't say what it fixes or add, how do you check it does the right things?