Meeting 2021-11-03

[Mic92]

General business

Present in the meeting:

@edolstra, @Mic92, @lheckemann, @kloenk

Agenda for today:

Draft RFCs

• RFC 17: Intensional Store
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers
• RFC 83: Common interface package sets

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
• RFC 111: Ensure Officially Hosted Communications are Public - ask graham how to proceed
• RFC 112: Demote x86_64-darwin support to Tier 3

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 100: Sign commits: current nominations: @znewman01, @tomberek (leader), @hmenke (we previously wanted to close this RFC due to lack of shepherds)
• RFC 102: Moderation Team - not enough shepherds? (zimbatm joined)
• RFC 105: Nix flake labels - no shepherds yet
• RFC 106: Nix release schedule - current shepherds: @Ericson2314 and @regnat (ask ma27 again)
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization - needs shepherds
• RFC 108: NixOS Container rewrite - needs more shepherds?

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 62: Content-addressed paths - nix 2.4 is now released with feature, RFC is ready. @edolstra will discuss whether can FCP with the other shepherds.
• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support - Waiting on RFC text updates from @kisik21. (appoint a new author due to lack of response?)
• RFC 88: Nixpkgs Breaking Change Policy - moved to FCP
• RFC 89: Collect non-source package meta attribute - needs changes of the author
• RFC 92: Computed derivations - author asked for an additional shepherd, suggested @eelco
• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories - tried to schedule a new meeting, now blaggacao was banned (hibernate RFC?)
• RFC 95: Enable doCheck by default - asked for a meeting
• RFC 96: Experimental Nix derivations - @gytis-ivaskevicius needs to update RFC text
• RFC 97: Unset read permission bit on /nix/store for other users - shepherd team needs to review new RFC
• RFC 98: Community Team - no meeting notes, asked @zimbatm, what was the out come of the last meeting
• RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil - asked for a RFC meeting
• RFC 101: Nix formatting - asked for a RFC meeting

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

• we need a replacement for kloenk

Leader of next meeting

@spacekookie will lead the next meeting on 2021-11-17

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