Meeting 2024-02-20

[kevincox]

General business

Present in the meeting: @jonringer, @infinisil, @tomberek, @lheckemann

Posting RFC status to Discourse

We posted a poll to see how people want to get updates: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/rfc-status-summaries/40044

Unlabelled and New RFCs

None

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
  • We are now at 2 shepherds. The author is considering retracting the RFC.
  • So we will leave alone for now.
• RFC 167: nixpkgs maintainer requirements
  • Posted a summary. We have 2/3 shepherds.
• RFC 169: Feature parameter names
  • Activity, just over 1 month old. Let's leave it a bit longer for nominations.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • 2 weeks ago we asked for a summary, no reply yet. Wait one more cycle for a reply.
  • Soon we should probably ping them to go FCP or just draft until their desired prototyping is done.
• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • Active, leave alone.
• RFC 152: local-overlay store
  • There has been an update of progress, leave alone for a while.
• RFC 163: Portable Service Layer
  • Activity 3 weeks ago and a recent mention. Leave alone for now.
• RFC 165: Bootspec v2
  • Activity last week, leave alone.
• RFC 166: Nix formatting, take two
  • Meeting later today apparently. Plan to go to FCP soon. Leave alone.

RFCs in FCP

None

Leader of next meeting

@lheckemann will lead the next meeting on 2024-03-05