Meeting 2022-06-01

[tomberek]

General business

Present in the meeting: @spacekookie @linux @kevincox @edolstra @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
  • [@tomberek]: ask jonringer about status
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 126: Standardize special properties
  • early in process, allow time for more discussion

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions

  • no responses or nominations
  • [@tomberek]: mention that at two months we will "draft"
  • @spacekookie and @kevincox working on a policy RFC

• RFC 123: Flake names

  • "RFC ordering problem wrt. flakes"
  • [tomberek]: will leave a note
  • This RFC will be given additional time considering Flakes themselves require an RFC.

• RFC 125: Use an intermediary representation (bootspec) for bootloader backends

  • needs more time

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 101: Nix formatting
  • [@tomberek]: ping leader for meeting status
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • [@tomberek]: ping leader for meeting status
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • [@edolstra]: pass shepherd lead to @kevincox
• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages
  • Moving to FCP
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
  • no meetings, ping leader
• RFC 122: IPFS CID optionally on narinfo in binary caches
  • [@kevincox]: Meeting occured, requires update and notes
• RFC 124: Do not auto-close stale Nix issues and PRs, matching Nixpkgs's policy

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

@edolstra lead the next meeting on 2022-06-15

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