Meeting 2023-01-11

[lheckemann]

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 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
• 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 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
• RFC 137: Set Nix language version in magic comment -- new but still marked as draft
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts -- new but doesn't actually have much content yet

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories -- open for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language -- nothing happened during the break; awaiting updates to satisfy FCP criteria? @kevin clarified, there is actually a full shepherd team
• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs -- vcunat rejected nomination, still needs one. Wait another cycle before pinging for more nominations due to break.
• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix -- All accepted nominations form the team, Eelco leads (edolstra, infinisil, tomberek, L-as, andir)

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting -- Meeting upcoming
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization -- pinged author, since they stated they're looking at the comments and forming an opinion and the discussion has died down
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy -- pending meeting, pinged in matrix room
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms -- probably headed towards retraction, rejection, or major amendments, asked shepherd team for an update comment on the PR
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends -- significant progress: implementation merged as experimental, RFC text updated to match outcome of previous meeting. @lheckemann will suggest moving to FCP
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings -- discussion ongoing, needs a new shepherd meeting
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix -- Action items still pending (and no clear responsibility) AFAICT, asked in matrix channel
• RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS (and Git hashing) -- pinged (first-time!) shepherd leader suggesting organising a meeting

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2023-01-25

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