Meeting 2022-05-18

[spacekookie]

General business

Present in the meeting: @spacekookie, @kevincox, @lheckemann

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

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends - opened for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions - no shepherd nominations. notice was given, wait one more meeting
• RFC 123: Flake names - no accepted nominations
• RFC 124: Do not auto-close stale Nix issues and PRs, matching Nixpkgs's policy - nominations: @ryantm, @nh2, @infinisil. -> move to in discussion

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting - no updates
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization - no updates
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely - meetings/ work ongoing
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language - ask @edolstra for updates
• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages - meetings ongoing, @kevincox will ping shepherds internally (potentially move to FCP)
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms - asked for updates on matrix
• RFC 122: IPFS CID optionally on narinfo in binary caches - meetings/ work ongoing

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@tomberek will lead the next meeting on 2022-05-01

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