Meeting 2022-06-29

[lheckemann]

General business

Present in the meeting: @edolstra @tomberek @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
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions

Revived RFCs

None

Unlabelled and New RFCs

None

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 123: Flake names -> Draft
• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends --- Linus will nominate some people
• RFC 126: Standardize special properties -- Eelco will nominate some commenters
• RFC 127: Nixpkgs issues and warnings -- Linus will look for more nominations

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting -- @kamadorueda will be new shepherd leader if fine with it
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization - prodded
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely - prodded
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language - Kevin is taking over leadership and will work on this
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms -- Meeting attempt failed due to illness/other personal reasons; Eelco will ping for a new attempt
• RFC 122: IPFS CID optionally on narinfo in binary caches

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages -- Unaddressed comments. Kevin will communicate with the rest of the shepherd team to determine whether it should go back into discussion.

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Kevin has been working on an RFC to improve the RFC process a little more, making the Steering committee's work clearer and more manageable.

Leader of next meeting

@spacekookie will lead the next meeting on 2022-07-13.