Meeting 2023-08-09

[tomberek]

General business

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

Agenda for today:

Draft RFCs

• RFC 17: Intensional Store
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers
• RFC 83: Common interface package sets
  • related to https://github.com/nixpkgs-architecture/issues/issues/21
• RFC 98: Community Team
• RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil
• RFC 100: Sign commits
• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • some work and progress
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions
• RFC 123: Flake names
• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
  • some review
• 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 157: More granular control over the system
  • no action needed, potential changes to RFC

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • 7c6f43c and natsukium accepted, needs 1 more
• RFC 148: Pipe operator
  • iFreilicht, roberth, maralorn (needs confirmation)
• RFC 151: NixOS port allocator
  • discussion, no new nominations
• RFC 152: local-overlay store
  • RaitoBezarius, (tomberek), arianvp
• RFC 155: NixOS Migrations
  • some discussion, no nominations, has been month
• RFC 156: No Direct Nixpkgs Pushes
  • ryantm, piegamesde nominated

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
  • Fixed clerical errors regarding the composition of the shepherd team, apologies!
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • increasing scope, possible drafting @kevincox
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • potential implementation progress
• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs
• RFC 145: Doc-comments

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
  • @tomberek will get final confirmation