Refine development categories

[fricklerhandwerk]

To present a more predictable structure to newcomers, I suggest to roughly align categories to areas of work:

• Nix
• Nixpkgs
• NixOS
• Hydra

and the different teams covering cross-cutting concerns such as

• NixOS Foundation
• Infrastructure
• Marketing
• Security
• Documentation
  etc.

Concrete proposal:

• create: Nix
• rename: Nixpkgs Architecture → Nixpkgs
  • gradually move uncategorized Nixpkgs-related threads into Nixpkgs
• rename: NixOS Releases → NixOS

@ryantm @zimbatm what do you think?

[ryantm]

I just did the reverse naming of Nixpkgs Architecture → Nixpkgs a few days ago.

Nixpkgs Architecture Team Creation

@ryantm Could you give me permission to change the topic of posts? The topic is sometimes used for posts not relevant to the nixpkgs architecture, like this, this or this. I could fix these cases manually myself if I get permission for that. Or maybe the topic needs to be renamed (I’d propose Development/Nixpkgs Architecture), which hopefully makes it better for the future

But, I wasn’t thinking that hard about it.

Yeah, I think this generally makes sense.

[Infinisil]

The nixpkgs architecture is specifically not for newcomers. If you need a category for newcomers, having a separate Development > Nixpkgs sounds fine

[fricklerhandwerk]

Okay, I was a bit ambiguous there. The structure is supposed to be obvious for newcomers - contents of the Development category are of course not for beginners. We may want to make that clear in the sticky thread.

[fricklerhandwerk]

Shall we proceed then if there are no objections? The Nix team meeting notes are already spamming the Development category.

[ryantm]

I created a Nix category Nix - NixOS Discourse

[fricklerhandwerk]

I can’t move threads there yet though.