Meeting 2023-06-14

[lheckemann]

General business

Present in the meeting: @edolstra @kevincox @lheckemann

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 moved from "in discussion", but discussion is active
• 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 140: Simple Package Paths FCP cancelled, back in discussion
• RFC 141: Private Derivations
• RFC 149: Cache key rotation WIP, ongoing

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 151: NixOS port allocator opened for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs open-for-nominations stage announced last time, no nominations yet
• RFC 144: Versioned Flake References still pending more nominations, will be closed in the next round if none are made
• RFC 145: Doc-comments sterni, davhau and asymmetric as shepherd team
• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees no nominations, post standard message
• RFC 148: Pipe operator maralorn accepted, roberth nominated but no response yet

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy Author wants to pass the mantle on; asked kfears, recently active in the discussion, in #dev
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language text updated, Nix team will take another look
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community Eelco (co-shepherd) will ping
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings meeting being organised
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix external blocker is moving
• RFC 133: Git hashing and Git-hashing-based remote stores Kevin will try to get a meeting organised
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally pinged Tom to suggest a meeting for potentially calling FCP

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

An RFC discussion matrix room will be created, as suggested by @piegamesde -- thanks!

Leader of next meeting

@kevincox will lead the next meeting on 2023-06-28

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