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Lix organisation

This page lists community projects that are built with, optimized for, or make specific use of Li...

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Running Lix main

Lix contributors

Thank you for choosing to help us dogfood in our daily development! There is a lot of work-in-pro...

Updated 2 days ago by piegames

[archived] macOS Sequoia breaks existing Lix installations

Common issues

macOS 15 "Sequoia" changed the user ID ranges used by the system, such that some of the IDs for e...

Updated 4 days ago by piegames

Easy Drive-by Contributions

Lix contributors

This page lists easy contributions to do without additional context. Perfect to do on a quiet wee...

Updated 2 weeks ago by sky1e

Code

Lix contributors Style Guide

Code changes Tests If at all practicable, all new code should be tested to some extent. If writin...

Updated 2 weeks ago by jade

How do permissions work?

Lix infrastructure guide Auth/SSO systems

In an ideal world, all permissions are managed directly in Keycloak and propagated down to downst...

Updated 4 weeks ago by piegames

Getting Started with Gerrit

Lix contributors Gerrit

Thanks for showing interest in contributing to Lix! Gerrit can seem daunting at first, but it is ...

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Advanced Features

Lix contributors Gerrit

If you feel confident in your Gerrit-fu, this page is for you. Perhaps you've already noticed how...

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Tips and Tricks

Lix contributors Gerrit

SSH Tuning Add these lines to your ~/.ssh/config: Host gerrit.lix.systems User YOUR_GERRIT_US...

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Why Gerrit?

Lix contributors Gerrit

Gerrit produces better code: Gerrit enforces good commit messages. "PR message" and "commit mess...

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Gerrit with Jujutsu

Lix contributors Gerrit

Jujutsu has a very similar model to Gerrit! How nice it would be to integrate them! Unfortunately...

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Troubleshooting

Lix contributors Gerrit

"Remote Unpack Failed" on push Run a git fetch and try again. Re-run a CI Do an empty commit amen...

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Review Flow

Lix contributors Gerrit

The review flow is quite similar to how Github does it, but there are a few differences here too....

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Release names

Lix contributors

Release names are the names of frozen desserts. There's a list on Wikipedia of frozen desserts, b...

Updated 1 month ago by jade

IFD Improvement Discussion

Lix contributors Design documents

Pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA

Updated 1 month ago by kfearsoff

Roadmap 2026

Lix contributors Design documents

Lix's roadmap for 2026

Updated 1 month ago by Raito Bezarius

Nix bootstrapping

Lix contributors Design documents

Pad: https://pad.lix.systems/VjA-WMSQS42dh-ghL98Uow

Updated 1 month ago by jade

Forgejo improvements

Lix infrastructure guide Tooling improvements

A brief overview of our code infrastructure for those not in the Lix project: Forgejo https://g...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

2025-03-15: git.lix.systems replication broke

Lix infrastructure guide Postmortems

On 2025-03-15, the git.lix.systems host (which runs gerrit.lix.systems and identity.lix.systems a...

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Working Groups

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

What are they? Lix doesn't have a very formal development structure - ice cream isn't a stranger ...

Updated 2 months ago by kfearsoff