A few months ago a proposal to define improvements process (nixos/rfcs) was announced.

While many contributions to Nix and NixOS related projects fits into GitHub pull requests model, doing a substantial change requires more involvement from the community.

Two months later we can see that NixOS community is picking up on the process and RFCs are starting to show up each week.

News

• First RFC to go through the process. What a milestone!

  RFC 0004: Replace Unicode Quotes was voted to be implemented.

  And there is a good list of interesting RFCs which are being discussed:

  • (draft) RFC 0003: SOS: Simple Override Strategy
  • (draft) RFC 0005: Nix encryption
  • (draft) RFC 0008: Readonly recursive Nix
  • (draft) RFC 0009: Nix rapid release
  • (draft) RFC 0010: Nixpkgs development support
  • (draft) RFC 0011: Per project config
  • (draft) RFC 0012: Declarative virtual machines

• nix-index by Benno Fünfstück

  A tool to make the process of finding the packages and their files in nixpkgs easier.

• styx, a static site generator in Nix expression language.

  To give it a quick try:

  $ nix-shell -p styx
  $ styx new site mysite && cd mysite
  

• NixOS at Linux Infotag Augsburg

  Last week Linux Infotag Augsburg (“Linux Info Day”) happened at Hochschule Augsburg. Like last year and the year before, a NixOS booth was organized. A Short Retrospective by Profpatsch.

• And in case you didn’t know …

  Nix package manager works flawlessly in Windows 10 Creators Update with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Reading

• My journey into Nix
• My first Nix derivation
• Reimplement “npm install -g” with nix and bash
• Create a blog with styx

Events / Meetups

• Thu, May 4, 2017, regular Meetup @c-base, Berlin, Germany

  Generally, the event is not structured, we have no talks or presentations planned. It’s up to the participants, what’s going to happen.

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