This meeting was again release-themed. Since the last meeting we’ve resolved a few build problems in our non-critical nightly-style CI on hydra.
Today we’ve resolved some of the final issues and PRs for the 2.24 release.
Release notes for 2.24 by roberth · Pull Request #11170 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
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Attribution is tricky; easy to be unfair by accident
- Authors who did not contribute a release note didn’t get attribution yet.
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Perhaps attribution could be added to the metadata?
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@roberth will automate an author list for the release as a whole
buildNoTests: Disable unit tests by roberth · Pull Request #11200 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Merged
libutil: remove template id from constructors by pinotree · Pull Request #11203 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Merged
libcmd: do not compile editline helpers when building w/ readline by pinotree · Pull Request #11204 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Merged
libutil: fix/improve includes in current-process.cc by pinotree · Pull Request #11209 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Merged
Use std::unordered_map for ValueMap by edolstra · Pull Request #11191 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Merged
Shallow fetches of specific revs do not work with all servers · Issue #11012 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
We’d like to add a fallback behavior instead.
Increase download buffer size and improve tarball import logging by edolstra · Pull Request #11171 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Reviewed and merged.
Improve handling of tarballs that don't consist of a single top-level directory by edolstra · Pull Request #11195 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Touched up, merged.
WorkerProto: Support fine-grained protocol feature negotiation by edolstra · Pull Request #11140 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
Assigned to @Ericson2314