2024-01-15 Nix team meeting minutes #208

roberth · January 18, 2025, 9:28am

Wednesday triage meeting

Triage

Reviewed and approved by @Ericson2314. Merged.

Add release note?
Downgrade error on use to a warning?

Talked about this topic, which ended up with @ericson2314 making the issue.

Does Boost have a ring buffer type? If so it would be nice to use that.
Alternatively or additionally, we can change addMultipleToStore() to take a PathsSource && pathsToCopy and then have it destroy the Source objects as soon as it’s done with them (i.e. it would pop elements from pathsToCopy, process them and drop them). That way, the coroutine and its associated buffer should be released quickly.

No blockers

Awaiting review

We’re preparing a status update to be posted about the progress in Nix development and maintenance.
(sneak preview of what we’re drafting)

Current focus areas
- Contributions, reviews
- fetchTree
  - minor progress on individual fetchers and documentation
  - currently blocked on outPath change to path value (interface cleanliness and unknown unknowns)
  - spec
- meson in nixpkgs
- Dynamic derivations and better ca derivations (first deadline: Planet Nix)
- Making sure nixpkgs version of nix doesn’t fall again behind nix releases
- Installer update (by installer working group)
Challenges
- Little structurally allocated time among maintainers makes planning any kind of development difficult
Many contributions during the holidays
Achievements
- TBD (collect from release notes)
- Mic92 joined