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Gee, thanks so much for acknowledging my release-outpaths-parallel.nix 5x faster eval checks. It would have been a real bummer if you just copied it and passed it off as your own work.

Oh wait, that’s what happened.

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From the git commit headers:

commit 4874faf540622570ffc1ab545c05080ebe54b974 (HEAD -> infinisil)
Author: Silvan Mosberger <silvan.mosberger@tweag.io>
Date:   Thu Nov 14 23:14:20 2024 +0100

    [WIP] Parallel GH actions workflow for Nixpkgs eval

    Partly taken from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/352808 and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269403

My name is not “https ://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269403”, and “Silvan Mosberger silvan.mosberger@tweag.io” is not the author of parallel.nix as the commit claims.

@rhendric, when you quote a post you’re not supposed to edit what you’re quoting.

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From the git commit headers:

commit 4874faf540622570ffc1ab545c05080ebe54b974 (HEAD -> infinisil)
Author: Silvan Mosberger <silvan.mosberger@tweag.io>
Date:   Thu Nov 14 23:14:20 2024 +0100

    [WIP] Parallel GH actions workflow for Nixpkgs eval

    Partly taken from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/352808 and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269403

My name is not “https ://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/269403”, and “Silvan Mosberger silvan.mosberger@tweag.io” is not the author of parallel.nix as the commit claims.

@rhendric, when you quote a post you’re not supposed to edit what you’re quoting.

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I’m a bit upset that you’re immediately suspecting bad faith, but it’s okay, I also wouldn’t like it if it seems like others are ripping off my work. To clarify:

  • I hacked this together within a couple hours and just wanted to have the PR open for others to see that work is happening and to have a place to discuss before I headed to bed.
  • The PR is not merged and cannot be merged while marked as a draft. As with all my PRs, I only undraft when I’m content with it, including the commit history, which indeed includes giving proper attribution.
  • Note that I already rewrote part of your original file and will likely rewrite it further before marking the PR as ready, to a point where your original lines might not be present anymore. I’ll still attribute you in any case though.
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These posts were flagged as off-topic (and various other things) in the original thread. However, there seems to be a genuine issue underneath the complaint, that needs space to be resolved. I don’t want the posts hidden; the issue should be resolved, constructively, in this separate thread.

The snide tone of the original complaint, @amjoseph, doesn’t seem to have helped.

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