Meeting 2023-02-22

[edolstra]

Meeting 2023-02-22

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 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 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • New nomination: @winterqt
  • Previous noms: @edolstra, @zimbatm
  • Move to discussion with these three as shepherds (@zimbatm lead), others can be added if they want to
• 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

• RFC 140: Simple Package Paths
  • Open for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs
  • Close due to lack of shepherds
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
  • Nominations: @thufschmitt, @tomberek (lead), @infinisil
  • Move to discussion
• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
  • Nominations: @roberth, @winterqt
  • Need someone from the RFC SC (@lheckemann, lead)
  • Move to discussion

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • Had meeting
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
  • Discussion ongoing in Matrix room
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • Ping for update
• RFC 133: Git hashing and Git-hasing-based remote stores
  • Had two meetings, will probably do FCP soon

RFCs in FCP

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@lheckemann will lead the next meeting on 2023-03-08

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