Meeting 2022-11-30

[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

None

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • Discussion ongoing
• RFC 131: Enforce the usage of SRI hashes in Nixpkgs
  • AndersonTorres, sternenseemann (december),vcunat (nominated)
  • Ping for more shepherds
• RFC 134: Carve out a store-only Nix
  • Nominations: infinisil, andir, L-as, tomberek (leader)
• RFC 135: Custom asserts
  • Still no shepherds, move to draft

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • No progress, ping zimbatm again?
• 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
  • implementation ongoing
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
  • Meeting being scheduled
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • Had meeting
• RFC 133: Integrate Nix with IPFS (and Git hashing)
  • Need to add shepherd team to RFC

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@kevincox (swapped with @lheckemann) will lead the next meeting on 2022-12-14

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