Meeting 2021-12-01

[lheckemann]

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

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community open for nominations
• RFC 115: Minor typos. not an RFC, merged
• RFC 116: 0023-musl-libc.md - Update obsolete URL not an RFC, merged

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 102: Moderation Team — leader @zimbatm, @ryantm, @7c6f434c, @IreneKnapp
• RFC 105: Nix flake labels — Still no nominations
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization Accepted nominations: @7c6f434c, @jeff-hykin; need some more. Nominate @sternenseemann?
• RFC 108: NixOS Container rewrite — missing another non-SC shepherd; wait another round given Ma27's recent ping
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely — Accepted: @L-as; missing 2 more. Enough activity to wait another round.
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language — Accepted: @Synthetica9, @infinisil; Nominated @edolstra who promptly accepted.
• RFC 112: Demote x86_64-darwin support to Tier 3 — Accepted: @andir; missing response from @risicle; nominated @domenkozar, wait another round to hear if they accept.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 62: Content-addressed paths — apparently nearly ready for FCP 🎉
• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support — picked up again
• RFC 89: Collect non-source package meta attribute — discussion ongoing?
• RFC 92: Computed derivations — trimmed down, awaiting further discussion?
• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories — stalled for moderation reasons
• RFC 95: Enable doCheck by default — discussion ongoing
• RFC 96: Experimental Nix derivations — revisions ongoing
• RFC 97: Unset read permission bit on /nix/store for other users — discussion ongoing
• RFC 98: Community Team — discussions ongoing
• RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil — discussion ongoing
• RFC 100: Sign commits — discussion ongoing
• RFC 101: Nix formatting — discussion ongoing
• RFC 106: Nix release schedule — discussion ongoing

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

• @tomberek and @kevincox have been nominated and accepted for 2022's RFC Steering Committee

Leader of next meeting

@kloenk (if available) or @edolstra will lead the next meeting on 2021-12-15

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

[Ericson2314]

[x] RFC 62: Content-addressed paths — apparently nearly ready for FCP 🎉

Where is this from? I am not sure we had an RFC meeting yet. I left some comments on things I would like to see happen.

[Mic92]

[x] RFC 62: Content-addressed paths — apparently nearly ready for FCP tada

Where is this from? I am not sure we had an RFC meeting yet. I left some comments on things I would like to see happen.

This was based on what @edolstra said, but your concerns seems valid.