Meeting 2023-01-11 #106
Description
General business
Present in the meeting:
Agenda for today:
Draft RFCs
- RFC 17: Intensional Store
- RFC 75: Declarative wrappers
- RFC 83: Common interface package sets
- RFC 98: Community Team
- RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil
- RFC 100: Sign commits
- RFC 105: Nix flake labels
- RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
- RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error
- RFC 120: Discourage nested
withexpressions - RFC 123: Flake names
- RFC 135: Custom asserts
- RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
- RFC 137: Set Nix language version in magic comment -- new but still marked as draft
- RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts -- new but doesn't actually have much content yet
Unlabelled and New RFCs
- RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories -- open for nominations
RFCs Open for Nominations
- RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language -- nothing happened during the break; awaiting updates to satisfy FCP criteria? @kevin clarified, there is actually a full shepherd team
- RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs -- vcunat rejected nomination, still needs one. Wait another cycle before pinging for more nominations due to break.
- RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix -- All accepted nominations form the team, Eelco leads (edolstra, infinisil, tomberek, L-as, andir)
RFCs in Discussion
- RFC 101: Nix formatting -- Meeting upcoming
- RFC 107: Nixpkgs
versionattribute usage normalization -- pinged author, since they stated they're looking at the comments and forming an opinion and the discussion has died down - RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy -- pending meeting, pinged in matrix room
- RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms -- probably headed towards retraction, rejection, or major amendments, asked shepherd team for an update comment on the PR
- RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends -- significant progress: implementation merged as experimental, RFC text updated to match outcome of previous meeting. @lheckemann will suggest moving to FCP
- RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings -- discussion ongoing, needs a new shepherd meeting
- RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix -- Action items still pending (and no clear responsibility) AFAICT, asked in matrix channel
- RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS (and Git hashing) -- pinged (first-time!) shepherd leader suggesting organising a meeting
RFCs in FCP
None
Accepted/Rejected/Closed
None
Discussion points
Leader of next meeting
@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2023-01-25
pad.mayflower.de/nixos-rfc-steering-committee