Meeting 2022-09-21

[tomberek]

General business

Present in the meeting:

Agenda for today:

1. no update on drafts
2. 2 new RFCS
3. nominations
4. in discussion

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
• RFC 128: Selective auto-merge on bot upgrades

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix
  • in discussion
• RFC 135: Custom asserts

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • mentioned, but not clear on meeting status
  • needs more shepherds
• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs
  • mentioned, needs shepherds (28 days)
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • @Ericson2314 @edolstra and @thufschmitt nominated
  • @Ericson2314 self-nominated
  • @thufschmitt accepted
• RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS
  • nominated: @kevincox @edolstra @thufschmitt @fricklerhandwerk @tomberek
  • @fricklerhandwerk declined
  • @tomberek thinking

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • new shepherds: @0x4A6F, @kamadorueda, @infinisil, @piegamesde
  • meetings occuring
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • discussion re-iterating on previous points?
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
  • recent discussions
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
  • no meeting, PR exists, recent activity
  • pinging @colemickens
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends
  • pending implementation
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
  • recent meeting and recent commits
• RFC 130: Stalled RFCs RFC
  • progressing

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

• posting a call to Discourse for new member

Leader of next meeting

@edolstra will lead the next meeting on 2022-10-05

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