endoflife.date entries for nix and nixos

[06kellyjac]

I'm working on adding nix and nixos details to https://endoflife.date

I'd be great if someone could give it a once-over. Also I'm not really sure what the support policy is around nix.
I originally thought 2.3 was more of the LTS/stable release, and everything following would be the more bleeding edge releases with new cli/flakes/CA etc but I guess that's all behind flags and very opt in.

This is what I have so far:

• nix
• NixOS

Draft PR: endoflife-date/endoflife.date#810

[06kellyjac]

Just bumping this since we're getting ready to merge. Can always update it after merging too :)

[06kellyjac]

One last bump before I close this. nix/nixos have been on the site for a while and it'd be great to get some feedback

https://endoflife.date/nix

https://endoflife.date/nixos

[BiNZGi]

At #1277 there is an upcoming discussion about the eol flags/dates.

What are we basing the eol flag on for the past releases?

Perhaps we can discuss it here.

[captn3m0]

1. Guessing we can mark 2.8 as EOL.

2. When does 2.3 become unsupported? The last release was in October, should we mark it as EOL?

3. What would be the next stable release in that case?

[06kellyjac]

When does 2.3 become unsupported? The last release was in October, should we mark it as EOL?

Yeah I think that if 2.3 was to be a longer term supported release it should maybe have had a more recent release. Also there's been very little feedback here so until we receive more guidance I think latest cycle X.X = supported and anything less = EOL

[fricklerhandwerk]

Discussed in the Nix team meeting 2023-06-05:

• @edolstra: we don't have a formal policy
  • try to maintain the Nix version used by the latest NixOS release
    • 2.13 in NixOS 22.11
  • @fricklerhandwerk will take on the issue
    • place here: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/release-notes/release-notes.html
    • link to: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes.html#ch-release-notes (then we don't have to maintain which one that is)
• @roberth: should also decide about the latest release
  • we don't have big releases and they usually need time to mature
  • Nixpkgs usually follows up late for that reason
  • would make sense to backport to the release before the latest
• @edolstra: should have versioned manuals to communicate this clearly
  • @fricklerhandwerk: Display versioned manuals on nixos.org nixos-homepage#1022
    • @edolstra: should not rebuild the manual every time, could as well link to releases, e.g. https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.3.3/manual/index.html
      • will update the release script to upload manuals as well
      • Upload manual + fallback-paths.nix in the release script #8463
    • @fricklerhandwerk: will check how we can integrate it with the website

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-06-05-nix-team-meeting-minutes-60/28933/1