so this is a prime example of how disfunctional shit gets when your open source community is this toxic. “oh the person with the (gonna be honest, not incredibly difficult) role of release manager is a shithead who was using his meager amount of power to repeatedly harass people! but how can we possibly fire him with a release coming up?” it’s easy when your community functions:

• replace shithead with one of the two other people on the release committee
• if they’re shitheads too, replace them with anyone non-shitheaded and competent from the community and have them follow the first shithead’s release docs
• if those docs don’t exist because the first shithead wasn’t doing his job (and of course he wasn’t), oops! delay the release til you can write those docs cause there’s no reason release manager in a distro famous for its automated testing and releases should be anything more than a minor role

but there’s nobody making the above calls, because “woke made us miss a NixOS release” is the point. it’s absolutely going to be used as a weapon against anyone who brings up valid issues.