Meeting 2021-08-12

[Mic92]

General business

Present in the meeting: @Mic92, @kloenk, @lheckemann, @spacekookie

Agenda for today:

Draft RFCs

• RFC 17: Intensional Store
• RFC 83: Common interface package sets

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 99: change default shell from bash to oil

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 88: Create RFC for nixpkgs Breaking Change Policy - shepherds: @blaggacao, @jonringer
• RFC 89: Collect non-source package meta attribute - shepherds: @alyssais, aforemny, asymmetric
• RFC 91: Pure Object Prototypes - shepherds: @7c6f434c (?) -> still no one else
• RFC 92: Computed derivations and hydra-safe IFD, author proposed people -> @tomberek self-nominated
• RFC 95: Enable doCheck by default- shepherds: @Ericson2314, @nh2, still one shepherd missing
• RFC 97: Unset read permission bit on /nix/store for other users - nominations so far @edolstra, @kevincox
• RFC 98: Community Team - nominations: @spacekookie, @expipiplus1 (ask for shepherds on discourse -> github is borked due to issue size) https://discourse.nixos.org/t/looking-for-rfc98-shepherds/14507

@edolstra will make discourse post asking for nominations on RFCs 88, 89, 91, 92; will close if we don't get enough nominations, can re-open if there is interest in the future.

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 62: Content-addressed paths - no idea?
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers - some discussions
• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support - pinged -> no response, @kloenk pinged again, mentioning that closing could happen whene there are no meetings
• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories - in discussion
• RFC 94: Use Matrix for Official Chat - ask what the status is
• RFC 96: Experimental Nix derivations - shepherds: @blaggacao @maljub01 @edolstra (leader) @nrdxp.

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Discussion points

• Nix roadmap

Leader of next meeting

@spacekookie will lead the next meeting on 2021-09-09

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