Meeting 2023-07-12

[edolstra]

General business

Present in the meeting: @edolstra @kevincox @lheckemann

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 101: Nix formatting
• RFC 105: Nix flake labels
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions
• RFC 123: Flake names
• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts
• RFC 141: Private Derivations
• RFC 149: Cache key rotation
• RFC 154: Non-legacy boot NixOS

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 155: NixOS Migrations
  • Opened for nominations.

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs
  • One shepherd for now, leaving it open for now to see if we get more.
• RFC 144: Versioned Flake References
  • No nominations, will close.
• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • Not enough shepherds yet, so we'll wait a bit more.
• RFC 148: Pipe operator
  • Needs one more shepherd.
• RFC 151: NixOS port allocator
  • Ping for shepherds again
• RFC 152: local-overlay store
  • No nominations yet.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • Do another ping
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
• RFC 145: Doc-comments

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 127: Nixpkgs "problem" infrastructure
  • Was posted here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/rfc-0127-fcp-nixpkgs-problem-infrastructure/29349
  • Merged
• RFC 133: Git hashing and Git-hashing-based remote stores
  • Merged
• RFC 140: Simple Package Paths
  • Merged

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

• Matrix channel for RFCs exists but is not yet complete (needs a :nixos.org alias, moderation bot and addition to the space), pending handover of Matrix administration from Graham to the moderation team.

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2023-07-26 (swapped with @edolstra)

https://pad.mayflower.de/nixos-rfc-steering-committee

[ryantm]

For NixOS/rfcs#152, I nominated myself, and John nominated Robert.

[kevincox]

Thanks. I think that is only 1 accepted nomination though. So looking for 2 more. (1 if Robert accepts).