2026-03-18 - Governance weekly
- Date: 2026-03-18
- Participants: raito, horrors, piegames, rootile, kate, Qyriad.
- Topic: Lix governance weekly
Agenda
- Job channel
- Inactive core team members
- Retrospective on the 2.95 release situation
- Various status updates from @raito for AFNix
- LixCon 2026 status
Conclusion / Action items
Job channel
Lix will postpone exploring a job channel idea until past LixCon and will mesh this problem with a sponsorship policy.
Inactive core team members
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix-website/pulls/69 is approved and merged along https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix-website/pulls/70.
- Lily Foster
- 9999years (Rebecca Turner)
are disboarded from the core team role in the Lix project. Thanks for all their help and support towards the Lix project.
@piegames will adjust the governance document to better match our current procedures.
The Lix core team will examine in a future meeting whether to maintain a "historical core team member" section.
Retrospective release situation
Split into two topics:
- the current 2.95 crisis, @raito @kate @horrors are addressing it.
- how to avoid repeating this mistake? post-poned to future meetings as we would like to have Jade part of this.
Status updates from @raito
- AFNix implemented the fundraising proposals in https://zulip.lix.systems/#narrow/channel/16-Governance/topic/Fundraising.20in.20the.20name.20of.20Lix.20for.20AFNix/with/8503 on three fronts: the Open Collective is set up by @delroth, Matrix announcement and social media post has been done by @raito. Next will be Open Collective link in manual and project README.
- Currently, the AFNix project representative of Lix is @raito, @raito would welcome someone else to decrease the CoI issues of being AFNix president as well.
LixCon 2026
- @raito expects more core team talks for LixCon and will pester core team members in private.
- @raito needs graphical design for LixCon, @hexchen seems sick and someone needs to take over. @kate offered to work on this.
- DGNum proposed a meeting at M-1 for LixCon but Lix did not respond. @kate propose we set up a weekly (in 4 weeks) between DGNum and Lix for LixCon. @raito proposed a scheduling link to both sides.
Future agenda
- Examining our posture on perfectionism vs incremental changes.
- Historical core team members section.
Meeting notes / Discussion
Agenda:
- Job channel
- pennae: We want to do it mostly for employees than employers.
- pennae: We should maybe make it the other way around and let people post they're looking for jobs.
- kate: it would prove difficult for companies to actually operate with this due to the whole bias.
- kate: having employers post ads as long as they behave in our code of conduct.
- let's shelve this topic as there might not be enough demands to justify the costs of doing it right, at least, after lixcon.
- @piegames own the fact of starting a draft on sponsorship policy.
- Inactive core team members
- Merge https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix-website/pulls/70 and https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix-website/pulls/69
- Qyriad: what about the proposal for alumni/emeritus section?
- Kate: thinks this would be good to be able to list historical core team members to permit core team members to use this for hiring decisions.
- pennae: wouldn't archive.org satisfy this objective too?
- Kate: a hiring manager would not bother with that.
- No objection to merge these two PRs.
- @piegames will adjust the governance document to better match our current procedures
- Retrospective release situation
- QA is required for 2.95.1 & 2.94.1
- releng for 2.95.1 is owned by @raito if no one else will do it
- Feature / merge freeze policy for releases owned by @raito but after LixCon
- Testing commonly used 3rd party programs (
direnv/devenv) with new Lix releases - Static builds should go into Hydra for the next releases, not sure we should put them back into CI
- expensive
- we do not need them very often
- AFNix: convert releng to Hydra and automatic things
- [Status update, Raito] LixCon talks from the core team
- [Status update, Raito] Fundraising for Lix project [AFNix]
- [Status update, Raito] Sponsorship of Mercury in LixCon
- [Status update, Raito] AFNix project representative [AFNix]
- https://docs.afnix.fr/policies/afnix-membership.html
- [Status update, Raito] LixCon 2026
- We need graphic design for LixCon
- DGNum team has proposed a meeting
- Scheduling a weekly between DGNum and Lix for LixCon