Meeting 2023-03-08

[lheckemann]

General business

Present in the meeting: @kevincox, @edolstra, @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 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 135: Custom asserts
• RFC 137: Set Nix language version in magic comment
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts
• RFC 141: Private Derivations

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• PR 142: Update RFC process documentation to reflect RFC 0130: Stalled RFCs (not an RFC) merged

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 140: Simple Package Paths roberth self-nominated, no further nominations yet. Only open for 2 weeks so no action required yet.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting meeting took place
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy update was posted
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language evaluated by Nix team, discussion can carry on
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community shepherd meeting took place, updates have been made
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends "partial" shepherd meeting took place, progress ongoing
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings needs another meeting
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix waiting for implementation of tests
• RFC 133: Git hashing and Git-hashing-based remote stores freshly reviewed with some nits and small material points
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally meeting took place
• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories meeting took place -- roberth isn't able to shepherd after all, so a new shepherd will be needed before it can formally progress, but meetings are happening even without a complete team so it's not blocking.

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@kevincox will lead the next meeting on 2023-03-22

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

[infinisil]

• RFC 140: Simple Package Paths roberth self-nominated, no further nominations yet. Only open for 2 weeks so no action required yet.

Turns out @roberth can't be part of the shepherd team because he's a co-author, see NixOS/rfcs#140 (comment). That was an oversight by the Nixpkgs Architecture Team.

[lheckemann]

Thanks for pointing it out! We'll keep that in mind.