2023-11-02 Documentation team meeting notes #91

Video conference

Notes

host Nix reference manual on nix.dev by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #764 · NixOS/nix.dev · GitHub

Needs maintainer-oriented documentations to keep it up to date.

Related: link to nix.dev for installation docs by mightyiam · Pull Request #1141 · NixOS/nixos-homepage · GitHub

  • Needs coordination with the marketing team

rewrite guide to pinning dependencies with niv by fricklerhandwerk · Pull Request #782 · NixOS/nix.dev · GitHub

Reviewed together, needs a few small fixups.

nix.dev: Cloudflare not deploying · Issue #300 · NixOS/infra · GitHub

nix.dev hasn’t been updated in a while.

New nixdoc release

@asymmetric published a new release of nixdoc that contains fixes recently added by @infinisil.

move question about channels to FAQs section by wamirez · Pull Request #744 · NixOS/nix.dev · GitHub

Added some more details. Waiting for input from @Raitobezarius.

allow rec in packaging functions by wegank · Pull Request #762 · NixOS/nix.dev · GitHub

The detailed information on pitfalls with overrideAttrs should go to the Nixpkgs manual. We want to focus on general aspects in nix.dev.

Continuing to remove nix-env from the Nixpkgs manual

Opened [Tracking] Documentation: Remove `nix-env` from the Nixpkgs manual · Issue #265058 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
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