Meeting 2022-02-23

[kevincox]

General business

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

Agenda for today:

Draft RFCs

• RFC 17: Intensional Store
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers
• RFC 83: Common interface package sets
• RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil
• RFC 100: Sign commits
• RFC 105: Nix flake labels
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions

Unlabelled and New RFCs

None

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • Need to collect shepherds and encourage more nominations.
  • https://discourse.nixos.org/t/brainstorming-for-rfc-pname-and-version/12873/102
  • Asked for shepherds on the Discord thread.
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • Nominations but no responses.
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error
  • Lack of nominations.
• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages
  • Bugging nominees for response.
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
  • Asked for nominations.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support
  • Ping shepherd leader for a meeting.
• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories
  • kevincox will reach out to the author offline to get status.
• RFC 98: Community Team
  • Ping shepherd leader.
• RFC 101: Nix formatting - Discussion is ongoing.
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely - recent discussion.
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language - Shepherd leader will schedule a meeting.

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on YYYY-MM-DD