Attendees: @regnat @edolstra @fricklerhandwerk @ericson2314 @tomberek @roberth
Notes: @fricklerhandwerk
Agenda
- triage the regression in 2.18
- triage
- discuss stabilising
fetchTree
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9052
- Would be nice to get a minimal repro
- Probably something to do with multiple outputs
- The failure was systematically on the
manoutput when trying to debug it, while theoutone was requested (withoutdepending onman) - Also (very likely) non deterministic
- The failure was systematically on the
- (investigated what could be happening in the code)
- @Ericson2314 will continue figuring it out
Triage
always show anchors on setting listings by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #8942 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- assigned to @ericson2314
structured attrs: improve support / usage of NIX_ATTRS_{SH,JSON}_FILE by Ma27 · Pull Request #9032 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- assigned to @roberth
nix eval: add --argstr and --arg support by elikoga · Pull Request #8992 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- to discuss
Allow CLI to pass environment variables to FOD builder by Ninlives · Pull Request #8830 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- assigned to @regnat
override ttl for some git fetchers by elikoga · Pull Request #8954 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- this seems a bit ad hoc, not obvious what the right thing to do is
- to discuss
Tweak a few things with libfetchers to prepare for stabilizing `builtins.fetchTree` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #9063 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
- we had some debate about separating concerns in the code
- split out a separate PR just for the fixups
- no consensus if moving out flake-related aspects into its own library this has merit
- as a follow-up on another unbounded discussion, @roberth and @fricklerhandwerk updated the maintainers’ handbook and contributor guidelines