Meeting 2022-03-23

[edolstra]

General business

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

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
• RFC 100: Sign commits
• RFC 105: Nix flake labels
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 122: IPFS CID optionally on narinfo in binary caches
  • Open for nominations
• RFC 123: Flake names
  • Open for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • @7c6f434c, @SuperSandro2000, @jeff-hykin accepted -> in discussion
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • Still no response to nominations of @alyssais, @zimbatm, @grahamc, @samueldr
  • Turn into draft
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error
  • Nominations: @lheckemann
  • Give another two weeks before turning into draft
• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages
  • Accepted nominations: @Mic92, @tomberek, @kevincox (but we need another non-RFC-SC nomination)
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
  • Nominations: @Ericson2314, @edolstra
  • Ping for more

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support
  • Author stepped down, ask if somebody else is willing to take over.
• RFC 98: Community Team
  • No changes, suggest conversion to draft
• RFC 101: Nix formatting
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@spacekookie will lead the next meeting on 2022-04-06

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