# Formatting Team Meeting 2025-05-27
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/formatting-team-meeting-2025-05-27/64870
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 27, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/formatting-team-meeting-2025-05-27/64870 "2025-05-27T20:10:43Z")
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### Author:  [@jfly](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jfly)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/formatting-team-meeting-2025-05-27/64870/1 "2025-05-27T20:10:43Z")
[Team info](https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/tree/master/team)
[All meeting notes](https://discourse.nixos.org/search?q=%23dev%20in%3Atitle%20Formatting%20Team%20Meeting%20order%3Alatest)
Team attendees: @jfly @infinisil @MattSturgeon @piegamesde @sergey @0x4A6F
Other attendees:
### Agenda & Notes
- We as the formatting team are unhappy with how events played out in [Preserving empty lines before a semicolon is a bit strange · Issue #298 · NixOS/nixfmt · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/issues/298).
- Part of the problem is that we were sending out mixed signals w.r.t. how to proceed with that issue.
- We are working on improving our internal coordination, as well as communication with the moderation team.
- Going forward, @piegames has opened [Re-evaluate policy of preserving empty lines · Issue #308 · NixOS/nixfmt · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/issues/308) to give the discussion a fresh start, while highlighting the various complexities of the issue.
- Discussed treefmt stdin spec ([Add a Stdin Specification by jfly · Pull Request #586 · numtide/treefmt · GitHub](https://github.com/numtide/treefmt/pull/586)). @jfly to ping treefmt maintainers.
- Discussed [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/407681](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/407681)
- Merged by @infinisil!
- Backport created: [[Backport release-25.05] nixfmt-tree: remove `tree-root-file` default by nixpkgs-ci[bot] · Pull Request #411478 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/411478)
- Discussed [Tweak operation absorbtion (ex. Unindent Concatenation) by piegamesde · Pull Request #307 · NixOS/nixfmt · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/pull/307).
Formatting generally looks good. Found a minor regression that @piegames is working on.
- @jfly to update standard to allow for this: [Update standard.md to allow for unindented concatenation · Issue #309 · NixOS/nixfmt · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/issues/309)
- We’ll apply the “deindent” formatting when the first operand is a literal (aka `"..."`, `[...]`, or `{...}`)
- In other cases (function application, variables, etc), we will keep the current (indented) formatting.
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### Author:  [@fricklerhandwerk](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/fricklerhandwerk)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/formatting-team-meeting-2025-05-27/64870/2 "2025-05-27T20:24:58Z")
Thank you so much, formatting team! I love how you’re thoughtfully addressing those pesky style issues one by one. And that we finally have both a structured representation of what we think is orderly and maintainable code and a place and process for discussing decisions around that. It feels like the formatting is getting more clever and sensible continuously.