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Running Lix main
Thank you for choosing to help us dogfood in our daily development! If you run into any issues, y...
Gerrit with Jujutsu
Jujutsu has a very similar model to Gerrit and natively supports sending Gerrit changes! You’ll n...
Release names
Release names are the names of frozen desserts. There's a list on Wikipedia of frozen desserts, b...
xattrs feasibility to supplement the SQLite database model
xattrs were imagined as a way to supplement/replace the SQLite database model. Unfortunately, xat...
Pointer equality
Introduction This page dives into the concept of pointer equality, its role in Lix, and provides ...
Debugging weird DNS resolutions inside sandbox
Run this with pasta: $ nix-build -E 'let pkgs = (import <nixpkgs> {}); in pkgs.runCommand "resolv...
Freezes and recommended contributions
Suggested contributions Consider taking an issue marked E-help wanted: assign it to yourself and ...
Flake stabilisation proposal
Preface STATUS: The core team has discussed this proposal, and decided that Lix will be moving in...
Flakes feature freeze
The core team has decided to freeze the Flake feature set and semantics at its current point, exc...
Lix Governance
Lix has three overlapping circles of responsibility: The core team is the primary governance body...
Nix Resources
Lix doesn't exist in a vacuum—but instead builds atop the incredible work of dozens of NixOS comm...
Debugging a stuck Lix invocation
If you're experiencing an issue where a lix command appears to hang or make no visible progress, ...
Related projects
This page lists community projects that are built with, optimized for, or make specific use of Li...
Code of Conduct
Moved to https://lix.systems/community-standards/
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2025-06-27 Wiki work
Date: 2025-06-27 Present: jade, piegames Topic: Information organization in the wiki and the hom...
2025-06-26 Lix NixOS Module
Date: 2025-06-26 Participants: Niko, k900, piegames, Raito Topic: The current state of the Lix N...
Gerrit
FIXME: this page is duplicating a lot of content from the Gerrit section and should be considered...
Why Gerrit?
Gerrit produces better code: Gerrit enforces good commit messages. "PR message" and "commit mess...
Contributor permissions and Code Owners
One might wonder how permissions work on Lix and how one can help out with certain tasks. This is...