Agenda
@fricklerhandwerk :
should we invite PR authors to the work meetings to make quicker progress? (proposed by @garbas based on UX team experience)
put on the agenda: rehash flakes design decisions and options for development strategies for the future
@edolstra : will take out the auto-assign bot now that CODEOWNERS is in place
Triaging
allow setting cgroup memory limits via both nix.conf and pre-build hooks by cleverca22 · Pull Request #7388 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Remove the usage of VLAs in the code by thufschmitt · Pull Request #7348 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
cleanup eval.hh/eval.cc by NaN-git · Pull Request #7351 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Support non-bash shells in nix-shell. by gebner · Pull Request #545 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Support non-bash shells in nix-shell. by gebner · Pull Request #545 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
@edolstra : can just say “no”, since nix-shell is legacy and we shouldn’t mess with it
to discuss, since the same issue applies to nix shell and nix develop
Changes to make Nix output more informative errors by Mathnerd314 · Pull Request #612 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Expanded test suite by Mathnerd314 · Pull Request #633 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
agreement: this is useful
ping the author, otherwise pick out the working parts
to review by @thufschmitt
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5588#issuecomment-1346172417
agreement that we want go towards XDG
to discuss in terms of migration strategy
Provide SELinux support for Nix by outergod · Pull Request #2670 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
agreement: we should approach SELinux through the installer
decision: close the pull request, but not the underlying issue #2670
Rust contributions? · Issue #5315 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
@edolstra : this is on the roadmap, but we could discuss that for days
@fricklerhandwerk : we can have a sparse roadmap and timebox the discussion with the goal to find a place for that item
@edolstra : the question is whether someone is willing to spend time to develop this, when there is no net benefit to the end user. the answer so far has been no.
@tomberek : should write down what happened in the past, we had some experiments that failed
to discuss, timeboxed to 10 min to collect and preserve context
nix-shell dependencies can be garbage collected any time now / persistent nix-shell envs · Issue #2208 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
@thufschmitt : should not touch this for nix-shell as it would be painful to fix
the associated PR does not implement the right behavior
@Ericson2314 : don’t think it’s hopeless
to discuss
get-env.sh interprets hex literals in function bodies · Issue #5262 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
@thufschmitt : not high priority, leave it open
remove from the board
builtins.fetchTree requires flakes · Issue #5541 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
feat: add pre-http-request-hooks config entry and handle it by olebedev · Pull Request #7391 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
systemd,launchd match nixos open files limit by Artturin · Pull Request #6645 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
flake check: allow modules to be paths by ncfavier · Pull Request #7356 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
decision: close the pull request, do not type-check NixOS modules
allow installables without drvPath · Issue #7417 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
agreement that this is desirable
postponed, wait implementation
Update uninstall guide involving systemd by CircuitCoder · Pull Request #7324 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
when a substituter is untrusted, give a solution in the warning message · Issue #6672 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
to discuss, wait for implementation
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