Meeting 2021-09-23

[kloenk]

General business

Present in the meeting: @Mic92, @edolstra, @lheckemann

Agenda for today:

Draft RFCs

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

Unlabelled and New RFCs

• RFC 106: Nix release schedule open for nominations

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 100: Sign commits — still lacking shepherds. Formulate a response regarding why we close RFCs if they lack shepherds
• RFC 101: Nix formatting — zimbatm, nrdxp, 0x4a6f
• RFC 102: Moderation Team — zimbatm has self-nominated, nobody else so far. No further action for now, given that 98 is in discussion
• RFC 105: Nix flake labels — explicitly commented that nominations are open

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 62: Content-addressed paths — no action required
• RFC 75: Declarative wrappers — no news, @lheckemann will do some more reviewing
• RFC 87: Promote aarch64-linux to Tier 1 support — no news, ping in one meeting
• RFC 88: Nixpkgs Breaking Change Policy — potentially FCP, asked for clarity
• RFC 89: Collect non-source package meta attribute — discussion/work ongoing, next steps clear — no action required
• RFC 92: Computed derivations — discussion ongoing, no meeting yet. No action required.
• RFC 93: Propose RFC Categories — @Mic92 will attempt to get another meeting going
• RFC 95: Enable doCheck by default — shepherd team has not yet met, ping next time if nothing happens
• RFC 96: Experimental Nix derivations
• RFC 97: Unset read permission bit on /nix/store for other users — Ongoing discussion? Ask next time if the shepherd team doesn't comment anything
• RFC 98: Community Team — discussion ongoing, no action required
• RFC 99: Change default shell from bash to oil --- was labelled open for nominations, fixed. Discussion ongoing, no action required.

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected/Closed

None

Leader of next meeting

@kloenk will lead the next meeting on 2021-10-07

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