2023-06-05 Nix team meeting minutes #60

[fricklerhandwerk]

Attendees: @fricklerhandwerk @edolstra @roberth @ericson2314

Agenda

• work off items with higher priority

primops: add builtins.toTOML by polykernel · Pull Request #8416 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• @roberth and @edolstra raised doubts about reproducibility and long-term maintenance
• should rather use a Nix language library and close the PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8120#issuecomment-1584297213

• decision: merge. keep only the timestamp parsing experimental, we welcome a follow up with structured data

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8370

• @roberth needs a bit more time
• assigned to @ericson2314

Log all IFD by cidkidnix · Pull Request #8094 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• @ericson2314: may want to rename IFD altogether
  • @roberth @edolstra: agreed
    • @edolatra: risk of invalidating existing documentation
    • @ericson2314: can keep redirects
    • @fricklerhandwerk: will take responsibility of that when it’s time
  • opened Rename IFD (import from derivation) to something more appropriate · Issue #8450 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
• assigned to @Ericson2314

endoflife.date entries for nix and nixos · Issue #6063 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• assigned to @fricklerhandwerk

In pure mode, set builtins.nixVersion to a constant by edolstra · Pull Request #5971 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• postponed
• merge Automatically document builtin constants by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8330 · NixOS/nix · GitHub so we can document nixVersion to be discouraged, probably pin output to constant 2.16

Let financial contributors choose to fund the Nix team specifically · Issue #8431 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• assigned to @fricklerhandwerk to make a proposal