Meeting 2022-03-09

[tomberek]

General business

Present in the meeting: @edolstra, @kevincox, @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 0122: IPFS CID optionally on narinfo in binary caches

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization
  • Nominations: @7c6f434c, @SuperSandro2000, @jeff-hykin
  • left note to confirm, have three
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community
  • No update for request to accept/reject nominations
• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error
  • Lack of nominations: @lheckemann
  • Give another month before turning into draft
• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages
  • Nominations: @tomberek
  • Remaining nominations to be accepted: @Mic92 @Ekleog @Profpatsch
• RFC 121: Migrate OpenGL References to API-Agnostic Terms
  • Nominations: @Ericson2314

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support
  • needs meeting?
• RFC 98: Community Team
  • No update
• RFC 101: Nix formatting - Discussion is ongoing.
  • @infinisil willing to join as shepherd
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely
  • No meeting due to availability, will first focus on RFC92
  • on hold
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language
  • Meeting being scheduled

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories
  • closed

Discussion points

Need further exploration of how to draft/close RFCs if they do not have interest and/or stall for a long amount of time.

Leader of next meeting

@edolstra will lead the next meeting on 2022-03-23