RFC Meeting 2019-12-12

[Mic92]

General business

Election will take place

Unlabeled RFCs and New RFCs

• RFC 62 - Content-addressed paths

RFCs Open for Nominations

• RFC 32 - Phase running changes for better nix-shell use @samueldr needs to respond regarding sheparding (Pinged them today on IRC)
• RFC 55 - Retire inactive nixpkgs committers - Still only three nominations (@Mic92, @edolstra, @worldofpeace) -> Let's find a new another one today!
• RFC 56 - CI all Nix PRs - Needs one more non-steering committee, zimbatm maybe? (@grahamc, @domenkozar and @matthewbauer so far)
• RFC 57 - Named Ellipses - @edolstra and @7c6f434c accepted nomination, need one more - @jwiegley did not respond yet.
• RFC 59 - Systemd Service Secrets - @aanderse and @globin accepted, need 1 more (@dhess and @fpletz have not responded yet - maybe ask @Lassulus - krops maintainer)

RFCs in Discussion

• RFC 17 - Intensional Store: No progress since end of November.
• RFC 40 - "Ret-cont" recursive Nix: needs meeting (@globin to ping - I think he was pinged)
• RFC 42 - NixOS Config Options: still active discussion, did the meeting happen ([RFC 0042] NixOS settings options rfcs#42 (comment) - @globin)
• RFC 46 - Platform Support Tiers: close to FCP, waiting for @grahamc (asked him today)
• RFC 49 - Flakes: work ongoing, may have meeting soon
• RFC 50 - Merge bot for maintainers: Ongoing discussion, FCP after clarifications probably. Meeting pending (@globin ?)
• RFC 54 - Support levels and tiers - last discussion in November - stalled!

RFCs in FCP

None

Accepted/Rejected

None

Robin will lead the next meeting.

[Mic92]

Meeting minutes

Election for RFC steering committee rotation

Starting with next year we will have 3 new members in our RFC committee, while 3
members will leave the team.
The new members are @worldofpeace, @lheckemann, @spacekookie.
The members leaving the team are @shlevy, @globin, @domenkozar.
@edolstra and @Mic92 remain.

Agenda

• RFC 62: opened for nomination
• RFC 55: asked @alyssais to become shepherd.
• RFC 56: opened for discussion
• RFC 57: asked @jD91mZM2 and @matklad to shepherd
• RFC 58: asked @Lassulus to become shepherd
• RFC 40: ask @fpletz to schedule a meeting
• RFC 42: @globin should re-schedule a new meeting (the old one did not take place)
• RFC 46: still wait for @grahamc's feedback
• RFC 50: still @globin needs to schedule a meeting

[7c6f434c]

Maybe list the shepherds of in-discussion RFCs here? For RFCs lacking enough nominations knowing who is definitely too overloaded with other RFCs would help with choosing whom to nominate. (In today's case you have resolved this, but maybe next time we can save a week on some RFCs this way)

[Mic92]

Ideally this would be done in an automated way. Every pr in discussion should have the metadata necessary: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/17/files#diff-eef3bb3329dd189b0bf6ffcf143c0b5cR6

There is also an issue related to this: #1

[lheckemann]

I think it's @spacekookie not @SpaceCookie?

[Mic92]

I think it's @spacekookie not @SpaceCookie?

Right!

[worldofpeace]

Ref discourse post https://discourse.nixos.org/t/result-of-rfc-steering-committee-rotation-2019-20/5083.

[shlevy]

I'm not feeling well so I will miss the last meeting. It's been great to be part of the team! Maybe I'll join again next year :)