Steering commitee meeting 2022-11-02

[lheckemann]

General business

Present in the meeting: @edolstra @kevincox @lheckemann @tomberek

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

None

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language discussion ongoing -- nominate some participants of the discussion
• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs "renominate" sternenseemann, December would be fine. Also nominate vcunat.
• RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS (and Git hashing) shepherd team would be complete but for the steering committee limit (kevincox + edolstra); seek more nominations
• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix post nomination reminder
• RFC 135: Custom asserts post nomination reminder

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting shepherd team has changed, needs adjustment; work ongoing
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization discussion stalled? Shepherd team isn't listed in metadata, fix this and ask them if anything's happening
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy discussion looks stalled, might need a meeting
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms discussion ongoing, no action required
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends meeting took place at nixcon, setting out next steps
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings -- was almost in FCP but shouldn't be merged yet by the looks of it, some points outstanding
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix Eelco will ping Ericson2314 to see if we can get a meeting happening

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2022-11-16

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