Steering commitee meeting 2022-11-16

[tomberek]

General business

Present in the meeting:
edolstra, kevincox, linuxhackerman, 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
  • mentioned
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error
  • some discussion
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions
• RFC 123: Flake names
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
  • some discussion

Unlabelled and New RFCs

None

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • progress and discussion
  • @kevincox as shepherd: ongoing discussion
• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs
  • AndersonTorres,sternenseemann (december),vcunat (nominated)
  • TODO: ping for more shepherds
• RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS (and Git hashing)
  • amjoseph-nixpkgs accepted and this
  • move to "in discussion"
  • TODO: let them know of the team
  • @edolstra, @kevincox, @gador, @amjoseph-nixpkgs (nominated as lead)
• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix
  • no more nominations
• RFC 135: Custom asserts
  • warning of not enough shepherds, have two more weeks

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • meeting is referenced, unclear of outcome
  • TODO: ping zimbatm as leader, matrix room exists
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • discussion and movement
  • should we ping shepherd?
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
  • some discussion
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends
  • in implementation phase
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
  • discussion has moved away from shepherds
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • RFC is being updated
  • progress

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@edolstra

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