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Making Nix solve people’s problems
Documentation
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@fricklerhandwerk worked on the Nix and Nixpkgs manuals as well as formalising the documentation and Nix development process
Opened, merged, and reviewed pull requests
Merged
- NixOS/nix#7387 encourage adding to express interest
- NixOS/nix#7419 let installer blurb point to community page
- NixOS/nix#7418 add template for installer issues
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NixOS/nix#7382 move documentation on
auto-allocate-uids
to options docs - NixOS/nix.dev#403 complete the overview of maintainer responsibilities
Opened
- NixOS/nixpkgs#204626 document Import From Derivation (IFD) policy
- NixOS/nix#7403 disallow selecting shell prompt in code samples
Reviewed
- NixOS/nixpkgs#204460 Issue template improvements
- NixOS/nix.dev#404 Remove Nix starter template
- NixOS/nix.dev#405 Improve readibility via styling improvements
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NixOS/nix#7406 Document
gitlab
input scheme - NixOS/nix#7412 Document the release process
- NixOS/nix#7421 Trivial changes from the lazy-trees branch
- NixOS/nix#7423 Support flake references in the old CLI
Reviewed and merged
- NixOS/nix#7408 Post build hook signing
- NixOS/nixpkgs#204257 manual: update meta-attributes section
- NixOS/nix.dev#406 Mention WSL 2 systemd support
- NixOS/nixos-homepage#953 flake.nix: Don’t print the instructions on stdout
- NixOS/nixpkgs#204067 nixos/rl-2211: make it clear NixOS isn’t a set of packages
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NixOS/nixpkgs#204103 nixos/doc: document
mkOrder
and friends - NixOS/nixpkgs#204132 doc: add hint about lib.fakeSha256 to go section
- NixOS/nixpkgs#204343 doc: use sri hash syntax
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@infinisil and @fricklerhandwerk helped @lucperkins (Determinate Systems) establishing maintainer responsibilities for documentation
- NixOS/nix.dev#403 complete the overview of maintainer responsibilities
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@thufschmitt and @yorikvp are improving the Nix hacking guide to help new contributors being involved in Nix Improve the hacking guide · Issue #7357 · NixOS/nix · GitHub
jupyterWith
improvements
- @k1nkreet made JupyterLab opening its local url in the web browser instead of redirecting it to a file
Making Nix work reliably everywhere
- @radvendii worked on Firejail improvement
- @radvendii fixed some of the remaining CA Derivations blockers: 7409 and 7390
Making Nix ubiquitous
- @djacu imported python testbook in nixpkgs
Blog posts and medias
- @radvendii opened a PR to host NixOS community statistics on the community Grafana
- @bjth and @thufschmitt are still receiving talks proposals for FOSDEM 2023
- @infinisil Nix hour is ongoing well and he’s now streaming. So you can not only watch the Nix hour anonymously, but also interact with the speaker with the chat
- @solene made another Tweag+nix discourse update
Zürich
- @infinisil , @fricklerhandwerk and Alex drake participated in a NixOS Zürich hackathon, focusing on Zero Hydra Failure (ZHF), with Elton Vecchietti from Modus Create who held a workshop about Nix UX.
Nickel
Version 0.3 has been released! Take a look at the changelog and try it out in the online playground.
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