Meeting 2022-01-26

[spacekookie]

General business

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

Agenda for today:

Draft RFCs

• RFC 17: Intensional Store
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers
• RFC 83: Common interface package sets

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 118: Extra semicolon as a warning instead of an syntax error - opened for nominations
• RFC 119: Formalize testing for nixpkgs packages - open for nominations. nominations: kevincox (ack), Ericson2314
• RFC 120: Discourage nested with expressions - still a draft (move to draft section)

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 105: Nix flake labels - nominations: AndersonTorres. Pinged again. Suggest to close if no new nominations come in by the next meeting. Document process for this in the future? Conflict with base flakes RFC?
• RFC 107: Nixpkgs version attribute usage normalization - nominations: sternenseemann, 7c6f434c (ack), jeff-hykin (ack). Asked sternenseemann about their nomination.
• RFC 114: Code of Conduct for NixOS Community - grahamc, nrdxp (ack), samueldr, alyssais, zimbatm - ping current nominations for feedback

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support - no meeting since ??. Linus will ask samueldr directly
• RFC 89: Collect non-source package meta attribute - Shepherds have signaled their intention to move to FCP
• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories - no activity since September. Ping next week for updates
• RFC 97: Unset read permission bit on /nix/store for other users - Move to FCP
• RFC 98: Community Team - work ongoing, no public updates
• RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil - work ongoing, no public updates
• RFC 100: Sign commits - reverted to draft
• RFC 101: Nix formatting - no discussion/ meeting. Pinged leader
• RFC 102: Moderation Team - potentially moving to FCP
• RFC 109: Allow "import from derivation" in Nixpkgs, simply-stupidly, and safely - meeting scheduling in progress
• RFC 110: Add "inherit-as-list" syntax construct to the Nix language - no updates/ discussion ongoing

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 106: Nix release schedule - no major objections

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

Leader of next meeting

lheckemann will lead the next meeting on 2022-02-09

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