Meeting 2023-01-25

[tomberek]

Meeting 2023-01-25

General business

Present in the meeting:
@edolstra, @lheckemann, @kevincox, @tomberek

Agenda for today:
28 PRs processed

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 with expressions
• RFC 123: Flake names
  • new shepherd nomination: blaggacao, schuelermine
• RFC 135: Custom asserts

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 137: Set Nix language version in magic comment
  • activity
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts
  • activity

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs
  • discussion and PR
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
  • PR + activity
• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
  • roberth self-nominated

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • meeting and progress
  • @infinisil approved as shepherd leader
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • getting stale?
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • stale?
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
  • in discussion, likely turned to draft
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends
  • changes are in discussion with shepherd team
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
  • discussion, see Matrix
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • PR ready for review
• RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS (and Git hashing)
  • some discussion
• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix
  • meeting occured

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@edolstra will lead the next meeting on 2023-02-08

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