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Thank a lot, Randy.
I just tried again no joy. However I did notice that the build failure message is much faster than before. Usually it would take me almost an hour to get the error msgs now it’s only 20-30 minutes…

My flake.nix is very standard comes right out the installation

nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";

and the env.system package using pkgs.wezterm

I don’t want to clutter this thread and maybe wait another day or two before trying again.

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The Nixpkgs manual has a section on platform notes. They’ve been updated already but are currently getting further polishing in doc: revise Darwin SDK documentation by reckenrode · Pull Request #353439 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub.

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Please forgive my ignorance, but how do we go about joining this team?

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Maybe it’s just a matter of similar action to this? maintainers: request to join postgres team by samrose · Pull Request #353673 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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From what I understand, unstable is currently blocked on a failure to build transmission_4-gtk. I have a patch for that, which should unblock the channel.

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I appreciate the interest!

We have two main ways for people to sign up to participate in Darwin maintenance. The first is the GitHub @NixOS/darwin-maintainers team, which you can ask to join by leaving a comment on this issue. It’s an informal collection of Nixpkgs maintainers who are interested in helping package and maintain software for Darwin, and acts as the front‐line contact for Darwin problems when people have issues building or testing their work on Darwin; the ping volume is relatively high but the solutions are usually relatively simple if you have experience with packaging software for Darwin, and it’s a great way to get involved.

The second is the Darwin team, assigned to lib.teams.darwin and @NixOS/darwin-core, which is assigned as the maintainer/codeowner of the kinds of critical infrastructure that Randy’s work here touched, like the Darwin standard environment, macOS SDK packages, and Apple source releases. I’d be more than happy to have more people involved; it’d be good to see some contributions to these areas first (whether in terms of sending PRs, doing code review, or investigating issues), but after that it’s just a matter of sending a PR to the teams list and getting added to the GitHub team. I linked examples of the kind of PRs we work on in the PR I linked to that properly established the team, but here are some more recent examples if it helps you judge whether you’re interested:

We tend to coordinate and discuss things in the Nix on macOS Matrix room, so if anyone wants to help out with Darwin platform support, please do come say hi!

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@domenkozar I think that it would be good to promote and reignite the fundraiser again. I have stopped contributing on a recurring basis because the work has slowed or stopped. If this is used for funding macOS work again, as it just happened here (thank you for it and thanks @reckenrode for accepting it) - I would gladly get back to recurring donations, and I don’t think I am alone like that.

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