Meeting 2023-09-06

[kevincox]

General business

Present in the meeting: @infinisil, @kevincox, @tomberek

Draft RFCs

• RFC 154: Non-legacy boot NixOS
• RFC 149: Cache key rotation
• RFC 141: Private Derivations
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts
• RFC 123: Flake names
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  - Labels: status: in discussion
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  - Labels: status: in discussion
• RFC 100: Sign commits
• RFC 98: Community Team
• RFC 83: Common interface package sets
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers
• RFC 17: Intensional Store

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 78: System-agnostic configuration file generators
  - Labels: status: on hold
  - Marked as draft as we don't use on hold anymore.
• RFC 157: More granular control over the system
  - Marked as ready for nominations
• RFC 137: Nix language versioning
  - Wasn't 100% sure if not a draft anymore
  - @infinisil confirmed it's not anymore
  - Marked as ready for nominations again

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 159: General purpose allocator module
  • Updated on 2023-08-23
  • No change, leave it
• RFC 158: Flake version
  • Updated on 2023-08-23
  • No change, leave it
• RFC 155: NixOS Migrations
  • Updated on 2023-08-27
  • No nominations yet, leaving comment to remind people before Nixcon
• RFC 148: Pipe operator
  • Updated on 2023-08-25
  • Still one nomination missing, leaving for now

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 152: local-overlay store
  • Updated on 2023-08-23
  • Leave it
  • There should be plans for this week
• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • Updated on 2023-09-01
  • Is active, leave it
• RFC 145: Doc-comments
  • Meeting a month ago, leave it
• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs
  • Updated on 2023-08-23
  • Pinged last cycle, give it one more
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • Updated on 2023-08-23
  • No action necessary
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • Follow up on Eelco pinging offline and moving to draft
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
  • Updated on 2023-08-27
  • Call last week to drop, leave it

RFCs in FCP

None

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2023-09-20