2022-12-05 Nix team meeting minutes #14

[fricklerhandwerk]

Agenda

• @fricklerhandwerk:
  • remove the improvement label? (discussed on 2022-11-28)
    • @edolstra: we could use it to distinguish between actual new features and tweaking existing ones
      • @fricklerhandwerk: can also keep that implicit. more labels make it harder to use them
      • @edolstra: agreed
    • decision: remove it
  • note: dumped old or popular PRs and issues into the No Status column

Discussion

• Source tree abstraction by edolstra · Pull Request #6530 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • decision: @edolstra will pull out as many unrelated changes as possible
    • postponed

• More useful error when command not found on remote by balsoft · Pull Request #6628 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • decision: throw error message with instructions for manual workaround
    • assigned to @Ericson2314

• Use PCRE for `builtins.match` and `builtins.split` by yorickvP · Pull Request #7336 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • decision: ask author to try building boost without icu4c
    • postponed

• add CODEOWNERS by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #7277 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

  • merged