2023-11-10 Nix team meeting minutes #102

[fricklerhandwerk]

2023-11-10 Nix team meeting minutes #102

• Team handbook
• Project board
• Video conference
• Previous meeting notes

Attendees: @Ericson2314 @edolstra @fricklerhandwerk @roberth @regnat @infinisil
Notes by: @fricklerhandwerk @infinisil

Agenda

• updates
• triage
• discussion

Updates

• Nixpkgs stable was bumped to 2.18
• Nix 2.3.17 was released. which includes the zstd backport

Triage

Add a tarball of the manual to Hydra build outputs · Issue #9275 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• @edolstra not sure we should rely on Hydra build outputs
• @regnat and @roberth will help out to make a PR to discuss

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5380

• @regnat requests @edolstra’s opinion on the tracing logic
• to review

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8699

• @roberth will review soon
• currently no tests, but changes only very slowly and doesn’t touch the existing code base
• low risk to merge as experimental
• @fricklerhandwerk will try to trade a few hours with @ben to assure minimal maintenance

nix: develop: use SHELL from rc script by bobvanderlinden · Pull Request #8043 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• assigned to @edolstra

Factor out `StoreDirConfig` by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #6236 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• assigned to @regnat

Discussion

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9188#issuecomment-1805769616

• Decision:
  • Support the range of versions from NixOS stable to the latest one
  • @roberth will act as a watchdog to make sure we’re following that rule

Get rid of the `--derivation` flag by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8594 · NixOS/nix · GitHub

• no conclusion