# Proposal: stagnation and chaos
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/proposal-stagnation-and-chaos/71919
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**Created:** [November 9, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/proposal-stagnation-and-chaos/71919 "2025-11-09T10:51:07Z")
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### Author:  [@kiara](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/kiara)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/proposal-stagnation-and-chaos/71919/1 "2025-11-09T10:51:08Z")
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> One of the values we inherited from the interim Nix constitutional assembly is '…\[stable evolution over stagnation or chaos\](https://nixos.org/values/#community-values-stability)'.
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> This value has since been used to argue against:
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> \- \[accountability\](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/sc-meeting-2025-10-08-17-00-utc/70609) (why we even wanted elected representatives)
> \- \[proportional representation\](https://github.com/NixOS/org/pull/199#issuecomment-3506958459) (characterized as \[of utmost importance\](https://github.com/NixOS/org/pull/199#issuecomment-3506788693))
> \- (as per above) \[protecting from destabilizing take-overs\](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/proportionality-and-the-staggered-terms-in-sc/70563) (how was the value even intended?)
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> To be clear, if on a technical decision we used stability as a tiebreaker — then I get it.
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> When the community indicated the board last year seemed out of touch, the board opted to listen and step aside to make room for elected representatives.
> If this value, however its intent, ends up functioning as it has though, I call that a regression, and propose reverting it.
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