RFCSC Meeting 2024-03-05

[Infinisil]

General business

Present in the meeting: @infinisil @kevincox @jonringer @mat @lheckemann

Result of RFC Status Summaries?

• Most votes for Discourse
• Decision to post notes on Discourse starting today
• Posted summary about our decision to post to Discourse RFC Status Summaries? - #5 by kevincox

Message for GitHub issues:

Meeting notes are now being posted on Discourse instead

Unlabelled and New RFCs

None

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 138: Developing RFCs in repositories
  • @infinisil (author): Closed, not enough interest after all
• RFC 167: nixpkgs maintainer requirements
  • Three shepherd nominations, moved to in discussion
• RFC 169: Feature parameter names
  • Some new comments, leave as is for now

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 132: Meson Builds Nix
  • Was updated, some progress again, leave as is
• RFC 146: Meta.Categories, not Filesystem Directory Trees
  • Discussions dying down a bit, but leave as is for now
• RFC 152: local-overlay store
  • Leave as is
• RFC 163: Portable Service Layer
  • No updates, but leave as is for now
• RFC 165: Bootspec v2
  • Meeting happened

RFCs in FCP

• RFC 166: Nix formatting, take two
  • FCP done, no major new complaints, ready to merge
  • Merged!

Leader of next meeting

@lheckemann will lead the next meeting on 2024-03-19

[ryantm]

Thanks for moving these notes to Discourse. This increases the visibility of our most important decision-making process.

[toastal]

Now is the time to start the 4-space indentation proposal?