GO / NO-GO Meeting: NixOS 20.03 Markhor

worldofpeace · April 10, 2020, 7:25pm

I’ve determined that NixOS 20.03 Markhor is a GO today 2020-04-10.
No further review meetings will be scheduled.
We didn’t have @disassembler in the call, so I will get back to everyone on what sort of timeline we can all expect.

(these notes are thanks to Valodim, thank you so much)

Present in jitsi:

worldofpeace
aanderse
Graham
Eelco
ma27
flokli
Emantor
two “fellow jitsters”

Quick transcription:

welcome, [quick intro]
ref to previous notes (in this thread)
everything seems to have been completed
milestone: highlights only thing that’s not done
draft went to flokli, he’s working on it

one bug that caught eye: haskell related
not too familiar, anyone in call?
(seems not)

haskell derivation behavior wrt buildDepends changed, will break
Behaviour of .env in regards to buildDepends changed in 20.03 · Issue #84070 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

so far undocumented

not sure what to do about this bug

graham: opinion: no attention in 9 days, hence not a blocker
maybe contact john ericsson

wop: he self-assigned, documentation seems to be happening?

wop:
no blockers left

20.03 is a go!
highlights and failing packages left to do

samuel (@disassembler) here? see if he agrees

objections from anyone else? (seems not)

looks ok to you eelco?

eelco: sounds great

flokli is going to open pr with highlights translation to docbook
please submit what you need in there, should be done shortly

fabulous

Reviewed

github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

NixOS 20.03 highlights

opened 08:53PM - 03 Feb 20 UTC

closed 10:15AM - 11 Apr 20 UTC

worldofpeace

0.kind: enhancement 1.severity: blocker 9.needs: documentation

**Describe the goal** Let's fill up the highlights section in the [release note…s](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8ecbde9defe35df4169b5f5eebed999488b0182a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml#L13). **Here's how you can help** * Mention the highlight in this thread * PR to the highlights section * If docbook is inconvenient just comment it here, I can translate it **Contributing to the manual** Building the manual: ``` nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manualHTML.x86_64-linux ``` Open `./result/share/doc/nixos/release-notes.html` https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-writing-documentation **Closing** So much can happen to NixOS in 6 months, let's highlight what we feel is important. :fire: worldofpeace

PR has been opened right after as promised

github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

nixos/release-notes/rl-2003.xml: add highlights

NixOS:release-20.03 ← flokli:rl-2003-highlights

opened 07:18PM - 10 Apr 20 UTC

flokli

+52 -15

Fixes #79180. ![Rendered](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/183879/7901…7222-1b6ef980-7b71-11ea-8d9b-28c58a7f8ef6.png) ###### Things done - [x] Tested using sandboxing ([nix.useSandbox](http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/options.html#opt-nix.useSandbox) on NixOS, or option `sandbox` in [`nix.conf`](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-conf-file) on non-NixOS linux) - Built on platform(s) - [x] NixOS - [ ] macOS - [ ] other Linux distributions - [ ] Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside [nixos/tests](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests)) - [ ] Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using `nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"` - [ ] Tested execution of all binary files (usually in `./result/bin/`) - [ ] Determined the impact on package closure size (by running `nix path-info -S` before and after) - [x] Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date - [ ] Fits [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).

Thank you @flokli.

Followup on the Intel GPU Issue linux 5.4
I talked with Emantor and @samueldr in #nixos-dev about this issue at:
https://logs.nix.samueldr.com/nixos-dev/2020-04-10#3297847;

We have reason to believe it is actually fixed, and we’ll followup to see if the errata in the release notes can be removed (to use 4.19 to avoid the issue).