# Modular services meeting #5 2026-07-24

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/modular-services-meeting-5-2026-07-24/79145
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 24, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/modular-services-meeting-5-2026-07-24/79145 "2026-07-24T17:52:02Z")
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### Author: ![roberth](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/roberth/32/5488_2.png) [@roberth](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/roberth)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/modular-services-meeting-5-2026-07-24/79145/1 "2026-07-24T17:52:02Z")

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# modular services meeting 2026-07-24

Attendees: @aanderse @KiaraGrouwstra @Eveeifyeve @roberth

- @KiaraGrouwstra: should we be using upstream files?

- @Eveeifyeve: tmpfiles. Multiple implementations exist. I’d like to make that portable. Not sure about implementation detail

- @KiaraGrouwstra: what do we think of the approach of platform-specific modules?

- @KiaraGrouwstra: on sub-services, I’d like to have something like contracts

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## @KiaraGrouwstra: what do we prioritize. E.g. people are creating services. Maybe we need to focus on our capabilities first. Some PRs have been open for a while. How do we prioritize? What are values based on which to review and decide?
- Pr Reviews

- @KiaraGrouwstra: what are our priorities and shape of roadmap

- @KiaraGrouwstra: maybe one for me would be outstanding question marks

- @aanderse: i’m just here to advise from the perspective of an external existing system

- @roberth:

- @Eveeifyeve: put growing NixOS services on hold until this gets more mature (in terms of portability APIs), now trying to make a modular service for a database

- @KiaraGrouwstra: if we got ideas on TODOs let’s file them in the issue tracker for the kanban

- @roberth: opened [[modular services] User creation/specification · Issue #545287 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/545287)

We did a bit of work session after the meeting.  
We have a [label](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=label%3A%226.topic%3A%20package%20configuration%20modules%22) and a [board](https://github.com/orgs/NixOS/projects/116/views/1) now 🎉