Tweag+Nix dev update #38

Solene · October 28, 2022, 1:36pm

Making Nix solve people’s problems

The latest version of jupyterWith has been released!
The update includes changes to make it easier for end users.
- Flake templates were added so users can bootstrap a project quickly.
- Python dependencies can be managed using Poetry and poetry2nix for easier version selection and dependency resolution.
- Kernels are located in their own .nix file which makes them tiny, modular, and easy to digest.
See the repo README to get started and the HOWTO and TUTORIALS for further instructions.

@thufschmitt, as a member of the Nix maintenance team, reviewed a certain amount of Nix PRs! 7223, 7212, 7206, 7196, 7190, 7203
@solene opened two PR using two different testing framework: bats and shellspec, the goal is to find a proper replacement for the Nix integration tests management
@solene participated into the public Nix installer workshop, and reported a few issues to the 3rd party installer harmonic

@bjth submitted a reservation for a Nix room at FOSDEM 2023, we will know the answer the 31st of October.
@radvendii published the metrics website and is now rewriting the tooling from python+rust to 100% rust. This will be the opportunity to process more data and provide more information from Google’s data.
The marketing team has been quite for a while, but @garbas and @bjth have tried to get it going again. The results of the last meeting can be seen here

@bjth ran the media infrustructure and the show, enabling people to attend the NixCon remotely
@bjth is taking care of splitting the talks from the NixCon recordings (2x 8h) into their own videos
Guillaume Desforges had a flash talk on the topic of “Talking about Nix with Friends”
@layus had a flash talk about “Nix error traces improvements”
@djacu had a flash talk about JupyterWith, a project to make Jupyter playbooks reproducibles
@tshaynik had a flash talk about packaging Jitsi
@thufschmitt had a flash talk about “Running the Nix daemon (nearly) rootless”
@thufschmitt, as a member of the NixOS Foundation Board, participated into replying to the community questions about the project
@fricklerhandwerk gave the final talk “Flattening the learning curve”, reporting on what the Nix documentation team had worked on this year, and proposing a long-term vision as well as possible next steps
@infinisil did a Questions / Answers during the hackathon
@fricklerhandwerk organized a documentation workshop, where participants engaged in setting up a more effective team of maintainers

Tweag was a gold sponsor this year together with many more awesome companies supporting the cause

Many thanks to all the other people from Tweag who participated and that I may not have listed here

may your build be reproducible