Meeting 2023-06-28

[kevincox]

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 101: Nix formatting
• 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 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts
• RFC 141: Private Derivations
• RFC 149: Cache key rotation
• RFC 153: [RFC #TBD] Rename the unstable branches/channels
• RFC 154: Non-legacy boot NixOS

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 152: local-overlay store
  • @kevincox: Mark as open for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs
  • Posted first shepherd nag
• RFC 144: Versioned Flake References
  • No more shepherds, next week will be the closing.
• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • Still looking for shepherds.
  • Note: This is related to "Simple Package Paths" RFC. @kevincox to make sure they are aware of each other.
    • They say that this RFC is focused on adding categories while the other RFC is removing the heirarchy so these two are complementary.
• RFC 148: Pipe operator
  • Got one sheperd recently, left a comment encouraging more.
• RFC 151: NixOS port allocator
  • Opened last week with lots of discussion. going to leave open.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • @edolstra last week said he would rouse the shepherds. Give him another 2 weeks.
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • Just waiting on author.
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
• RFC 140: Simple Package Paths
  • @kevincox to do the FCP dance.
• RFC 145: Doc-comments

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 127: Nixpkgs "problem" infrastructure
  • @kevincox to do the FCP dance.
• RFC 133: Git hashing and Git-hashing-based remote stores
  • @kevincox to do the FCP dance.

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2023-07-12

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