Meeting 2023-05-31

[edolstra]

General business

Present in the meeting:

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 137: Set Nix language version
• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts
• RFC 141: Private Derivations
• RFC 149: Cache key rotation

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 148: Pipe operator
  • Open for nomations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs
  • No nominations
  • Ask for nominations
• RFC 144: Versioned Flake References
  • No nominations
  • Close in 2 weeks if no nominations
• RFC 145: Doc-comments
  • Nominations: @asymmetric
• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • No nominations

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • Work ongoing
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • @kevincox will ping
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • Meeting being set up
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
  • @RaitoBezarius will replace @lheckemann as shepherd
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
• RFC 133: Git hashing and Git-hashing-based remote stores
  • Ping shepherd leader if he wants to FCP
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 140: Simple Package Paths

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

• Rights to the Discourse category for RFC announcements should be opened up so that shepherds can post FCP announcements themselves

Leader of next meeting

@lheckemann will lead the next meeting on 2023-06-14

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