2023-09-05.md

2023-09-05 Nixpkgs Architecture Team Meeting #43

• Past meeting notes
• Recording
• Matrix announcement
• Recorded and lead by: @infinisil
• Meeting notes by: @phaer
• Present members: @infinisil @phaer @roberth @DavHau @growpotkin
• Attendees: @Quantenzitrone @YorikSar @fgaz

Agenda

• New members @DavHau and @phaer
  • Both joined after we dissolved the pkgs-modules working group
  • member ist on the website got updated
• Meeting got re-scheduled. It's now every 4th Tuesday at 13h UTC (15h CEST)
• Administration: Don't record anymore?
  • Livestream working again, so you ca watch this on YouTube.
  • There's discussion whether it's worth the effort and the change that ppl might be more hesitant to speak if it's recorded
  • We could continue to record presentations while stopping to do so for open discussions
  • Argument: Need for recorded discussion might hint at lacking meeting notes
  • Decision: This will be the last recorded meeting, we'll depend on meeting notes alone from here on.
  • Exceptions will probably be made for presentations.
  • Task: We need to update the NAT README on Github. @DavHau volunteers to do it.
• Anything to prepare before Nixcon?
• https://github.com/nixpkgs-architecture/ is a bit outdated.
• NixCon will be a good opportunity to get new people interested in the WG so it would be nice to ensure the docs are up to date.
• The normative part, "hard facts" seem to be mostly up to date, it's mostly the description of the work we do and our process which could do with a make-over
• RFC 140
  • After the NAT meeting will be the final review and ideally merge of NixOS/nixpkgs#237439
  • @Infinisil re-worked https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md and some of the linked READMEs in in i.e. lib/ and lib/path
  • It now features a "Conventions" section, for branch conventions as well as code convention
  • After NixOS/nixpkgs#250885 has been merged in our last meeting, we are going to merge NixOS/nixpkgs#237439 today; so people can start using it on and around NixCon.
  • The automated migration of packages to the new by-name scheme will be merged at a later date: NixOS/nixpkgs#211832
• Anything else?