Meeting 2022-02-09

[lheckemann]

General business

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

Agenda for today:

Draft RFCs

• RFC 17: Intensional Store
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers
• RFC 83: Common interface package sets
• RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil --- relabelled
• RFC 100: Sign commits
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms opened for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 105: Nix flake labels --- self-nomination from AndersonTorres, needs 2 more; marked as draft for now
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization --- still awaiting response from @sternenseemann. Reiterated question and asked for alternative nominations.
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community --- summarised nominations again
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error --- asked for nominations again
• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages --- asked for nominations again

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support --- asked samueldr for updates
• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories --- asked for status
• RFC 98: Community Team --- not in need of attention currently
• RFC 101: Nix formatting --- discussion ongoing
• RFC 102: Moderation Team --- moved to FCP. @lheckemann will announce on Discourse, merge 10 days from now
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely --- discussion ongoing on Matrix
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language --- Eelco will organise a meeting

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 89: Collect non-source package meta attribute merged
• RFC 97: Unset read permission bit on /nix/store for other users merged

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@kevincox will lead the next meeting on 2022-02-23

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