Meeting 2023-08-23

[kevincox]

General business

Present in the meeting: @Niksnut @kevin @infinisil @lheckemann

Agenda for today:

• Remove draft label as we now only use PR draft status. @kevincox

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 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
• 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
• RFC 157: More granular control over the system

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 158: Flake version
  • Opened for nominations.
• RFC 159: General purpose allocator module
  • Opened for nominations
• RFC 160: Update 92: ^ instead of !
  • We decided to not merge substantial updates to accepted RFCs Update 92: ^ instead of ! rfcs#160 (comment)

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • 2 accepted nominations so far, @infinisil self-nominated.
  • Moved to in discussion
• RFC 148: Pipe operator
  • 2 accepted nominations, need one more.
• RFC 152: local-overlay store
  • Shepherds were added last meeting, just forgot to relabel.
• RFC 155: NixOS Migrations
  • Waiting for shepherds. Next meeting will be closed due to lack of interest.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
  • Last activity 2 weeks ago, leaving for now.
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • Author decided to move to draft.
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • @edolstra will ping offline. Suggesting moving to draft if there is no time to drive forward.
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • WIP, no action required.
• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs
  • Prompted shepherd leader
• RFC 145: Doc-comments
  • The documentation team said "working on it" 3 weeks ago. Let's leave for now.

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2023-09-06