2023-04-14 Nix team meeting minutes #48

[fricklerhandwerk]

Attendees: @thufschmitt @Ericson2314 @edolstra @tomberek @fricklerhandwerk @roberth

Agenda

• Triage (30 min)
• Clean up Postponed column (30 min)

Triage

• Nix daemon blocked by sandbox on macOS Monterey (on external SSD) · Issue #6291 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • @thufschmitt: we don’t really have the macOS knowledge to fix this efficiently
  • @Ericson2314: would be good if we could recruit maintainers who are expert with macOS
  • @roberth: there is an OpenCollective program for macOS
    • @fricklerhandwerk will get in touch with @toonn
• Merge how-to section on S3 buckets into S3 store docs by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #7972 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • assigned to @roberth

Notes

Currently we’re fully booked with reviews and follow-ups, so we cannot effectively take on more assignments. We have to figure out how to express that something needs maintainer review but has to wait until there is time.

Decision: Clean up Postponed column, such that it consistently contains items waiting to be worked on by maintainers, but which are not currently a priority. Remove idea approved issues from the board – those can be picked up by anyone and then triaged as pull requests.

Cleaning up postponed issues and PRs

• `nix describe-stores --json` format is not extensible · Issue #7824 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • closed
• nix store gc: Stabilize by roberth · Pull Request #7608 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • removed from the board
  • authors can follow up and ping us when their issue or PR is unblocked
• [WIP] Add 'perSystem' and 'systems' schema attributes by gytis-ivaskevicius · Pull Request #6773 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • low priority
• https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7701
  • not part of the board workflow
  • removed from the board, pinned in the issue tracker
• Allow to get rid of `nix develop` "shell" logic · Issue #7501 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • idea approved
• Add pre-commit hook and CI check, excluding currently unformatted files by roberth · Pull Request #7745 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • assigned to @ericson2314
• Unsmudge fetchGit for reproducibility and security by roberth · Pull Request #4635 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • closed, superseded by using libgit, currently work in progress by @edolstra
• Rename 'nix shell' · Issue #4715 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • removed from the board
• Reorganise include files by andreabedini · Pull Request #7847 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
• Reorganize this repo · Issue #7876 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • moved back: to discuss
• adr: 0001-condense-information-around-nix-3 by kamadorueda · Pull Request #6232 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
  • this should probably be part of an updated RFC
  • we don’t want to open up a discussion about ADRs now
  • closed