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2026-02-11 Core team technical discussion

Contributing Discussion notes

Date: 2026-02-11 Participants: Raito, horrors, rootile, piegames, jade, kate, Qyriad Topic: Core...

Updated 2 weeks ago by piegames

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Contributing Discussion notes

Date: Participants: Topic: Conclusion / Action items Meeting notes / Discussion

Updated 2 weeks ago by piegames

Debugging a stuck Lix invocation

Lix users

If you're experiencing an issue where a lix command appears to hang or make no visible progress, ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Raito Bezarius

Pointer equality

Development Technical notes

Introduction This page dives into the concept of pointer equality, its role in Lix, and provides ...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Raito Bezarius

Getting Started with Gerrit

Contributing Intro to Gerrit

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

Updated 3 weeks ago by kfearsoff

xattrs feasibility to supplement the SQLite database model

Development Design planning

xattrs were imagined as a way to supplement/replace the SQLite database model. Unfortunately, xat...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Raito Bezarius

Flakes feature freeze

Development Design planning

The core team has decided to freeze the Flake feature set and semantics at its current point, exc...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

Improving IFD

Development Design planning

Discussion pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA Further reading: https://jade.fy...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

Nix bootstrapping

Development Design planning

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

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Working Groups

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

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

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Replacement CLI design & Profiles

Development Design planning

Draft pads: https://pad.lix.systems/lix-cli-design https://pad.lix.systems/lix-profiles

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Observability and Protocol Design

Development Design planning

jade: I think that we should start protocol design by thinking about who needs what information, ...

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Flake stabilisation proposal

Development Design planning

Preface STATUS: The core team has discussed this proposal, and decided that Lix will be moving in...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

Nix lang v2

Development Design planning

The Nix language unfortunately is full of little and big design accidents. Only so much can be fi...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

Docs rewrite plans

Development Design planning

Here, for now (public edit link): https://pad.lix.systems/lix-docs-planning

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Language versioning

Development Design planning

This document is extremely a draft. It needs some editing and discussion before it can be made in...

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Dreams

Development Design planning

This page documents the dreams of the Lix team. These are features which we have generally not ro...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

regexp engine investigation

Development Design planning

nix uses libstdc++'s std::regex. it uses whatever version of libstdc++ the host system has. which...

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Freezes and recommended contributions

Contributing Working in the Lix codebase

Suggested contributions Consider taking an issue marked E-help wanted: assign it to yourself and ...

Updated 3 weeks ago by piegames

Release names

Development

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

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade