Meeting 2022-10-05

[edolstra]

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
• 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 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix
  • Open for nominations
• RFC 135: Custom asserts
  • Open for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • Still needs one more nomination; move to draft in two weeks
• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs
  • Nominations: @AndersonTorres, @sternenseemann (not accepted yet)
  • Do another call for nominations
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • @Ericson2314 @edolstra and @thufschmitt nominated
  • @Ericson2314 self-nominated
  • @thufschmitt accepted
  • @edolstra accepted
• RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS
  • nominated: @kevincox @edolstra @thufschmitt @fricklerhandwerk @tomberek
  • @fricklerhandwerk declined
  • @tomberek thinking
  • @kevincox accepted
  • @edolstra accepted
  • Do another ping

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
• RFC 130: Stalled RFCs RFC
  • FCP will probably happen this week.

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

None

Leader of next meeting

@lheckemann will lead the next meeting on 2022-10-19 (TBC: meeting may need to be postponed due to NixCon travel)

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