General business

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

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 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions
• RFC 123: Flake names
• RFC 137: Set Nix language version
• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
• RFC 139: Declarative filesystem layouts
• RFC 141: Private Derivations

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • open for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 140: Simple Package Paths
  • @piegames (approved shepherd)
  • @phaer (approved shepherd)
  • @06kellyjac (approved shepherd)
  • @aakropotkin (approved shepherd)
• RFC 143: Nix Store ACLs
  • wait till next meeting to call for participation
• RFC 144: Versioned Flake References
  • wait till next meeting to call for participation
• RFC 145: Doc-comments
  • @asymmetric self-nominated
  • @DavHau nominated, accepted
  • @infinisil nominated (reach out for decision)
  • @figsoda nominated, declined
  • @gilice nominated, declined

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
• RFC 109: Nixpkgs Generated Code Policy
  • @sterneseemann nominated as co-author
  • @7c6f434c re-nominated as shepherd
  • Call for additional participants
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • Call for clarification from shepherd team
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • No discussion or meetings since March.
  • Call for updates
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings
  • ongoing discussion
• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • Call to team for updates
• RFC 133: Git hashing and Git-hashing-based remote stores
  • Call for shepherd team meeting
  • in minor-revisions
• RFC 136: A plan to stabilize Flakes and the new CLI incrementally
  • RFC updated, expanded scope announced and call for additional comments

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

• pleased to have a successful meeting

Leader of next meeting

@edolstra will lead the next meeting on 2023-05-31

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