NixOS 22.11 Retrospective

TL;DR: Release retrospective in 18 hours! :raccoon:

Why?

To have a discussion around the stable release, and how to improve the process. This will be very similar in intent to previous retrospectives.

What?

We will hold a 1-hour meeting on Jitsi Meet to facilitate questions and have a discussion around what didn’t work well and how to improve. We’ll start by trying to collect and rank topics, and then walk through them in descending order. To keep the pace of discussion going, we’ll try to time-box the discussion (5 mins initial, with 2 minute extensions), so we don’t end up just talking about one topic the entire time.

Topics should be categorized into three sections:

  • What went well?
  • What was notable even if neutral
  • What went badly?

The desired outcome is to arrive at some “action items” which can be applied to improve the next NixOS release.

If we don’t arrive at the particular topic you were interested in, this doesn’t mean it wasn’t important, we just didn’t get around to it in this meeting. Feel free to post your topic to this thread to get a discussion started.

When? Where ?

2022-12-09T18:00:00Z → 2022-12-09T19:00:00Z

Who?

Anyone who has valuable feedback on the 22.11 release. If you attempted to contribute, contributed or used the release, you are welcome to participate.

Policy for this Discourse thread

Please feel free to add anything to the following topics in a post:

  • What went well?
  • What do you feel neutral about?
  • What did you feel negative about?

You can also start a discussion to other people’s posts, however, if a particular topic warrants its own thread, then it should probably be moved into its own thread. We would like to mainly keep this thread focused on discussion topics for the retrospective meeting.

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2022-12-09T18:00:00Z UTC → 2022-12-09T19:00:00Z UTC

Will this be recorded? 02:00 is a tad late for people in this timezone.

I would assume that there will be a summarization of the discussed things afterwards.

@hexa Thanks for organizing this, always good to improve our processes :slight_smile:

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Thanks everyone for participating.

I didn’t feel comfortable recording the session, but as always we have a sheet where we collected the discussion result. Most topics have some comments that hold interesting details.

We already identified five action items, that could improve the release process.

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