Meeting 2022-07-27

[kevincox]

General business

Present in the meeting: @edolstra, @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 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

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 128: Selective auto-merge on bot upgrades
  • Is a draft. Added label.
• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs
  • Has active discussion. Will leave alone for now.

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends
  • Has a shepherd team, need to update metadata and prod for first meeting.
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
  • Left comment prodding for more shepherds.
• RFC 130: Stalled RFCs RFC
  • Author is still looking for shepherds.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • Leave alone for one more cycle.
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • Proded for FCP.
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely
  • Poked.
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • Looking for new shepherd. Updated labels.
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
  • Poked
• RFC 122: IPFS CID optionally on narinfo in binary caches
  • Update label to reflect new draft status.

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@spacekookie will lead the next meeting on 2022-08-10

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