@proofconstruction: We don’t have a policy how to talk about any tools, community, third-party, commercial…
We may as well not talk about any of the third-party tools
@roberth: We might be able to maintain links, and perhaps some comparisons. That format may motivate those projects to help maintain such a page, because it’s their marketing basically.
@fricklerhandwerk: We could set ground rules and otherwise accept contributions by owners
@asymmetric: Some “sister projects” might be appropriate for nix.dev, but not cachix et al
@yuki_is_board: the “official” part of the ecosystem is lacking a lot of vital things. For example, not mentioning Home Manager would do a disservice to users.
@fricklerhandwerk: We can refer to FOSS tooling liberally as long as we know what we’re talking about and make sure that those projects are alive and have a future, otherwsise we’re setting ourselves and our users up for a lot of additional work
@zmitchell: adding links to commercial products should be enough. those should maintain their own documentation for integrating with open source.
@fricklerhandwerk: does not preclude having some sort of paid advertisement in a very controlled manner
@proofconstruction: can have a page for recommended open source tooling, too (that we curate ourselves)
@zmitchell: advertising is rather a question for the foundation board
rough consensus on mentioning third-party FOSS tools on nix.dev, in an explanatory “this fulfills this purpose” way, but no decision yet