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IFD Improvement Discussion

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

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Roadmap 2026

Lix contributors Design documents

Lix's roadmap for 2026

Updated 2 days ago by Raito Bezarius

Nix bootstrapping

Lix contributors Design documents

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

Updated 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago by kfearsoff

Replacement CLI design & Profiles

Lix contributors Design documents

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

Updated 1 week ago by jade

Commit porting (cherry-picking) guide

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

This guide is primarily about CppNix->Lix commit ports and was written when we were doing a lot o...

Updated 3 weeks ago by jade

Freezes and recommended contributions

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

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

Updated 1 month ago by jade

Observability and Protocol Design

Lix contributors Design documents

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

Updated 1 month ago by jade

Misc tips

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

pyright is not dealing with import paths correctly for functional2 I don't know why it's doing th...

Updated 1 month ago by jade

Release names

Lix contributors

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

Updated 2 months ago by jade

Nix lang v2

Lix contributors Design documents

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

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

Flake stabilisation proposal

Lix contributors Design documents

Preface FIXME: this page hasn't been reviewed by Lix Core team members, so it's effectively a dra...

Updated 4 months ago by kfearsoff

Creating Matrix Rooms/Spaces

Lix infrastructure guide

actual explanation will follow, tldr; here: create room with the matrix API or a client that all...

Updated 5 months ago by piegames

Merging Gerrit identities

Lix infrastructure guide

Basically, following https://ovirt-infra-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/General/Gerrit_account_mer...

Updated 5 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Community Standards

Lix organisation

Moved to https://lix.systems/community-standards/

Updated 5 months ago by piegames

Dreams

Lix contributors Design documents

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

Updated 6 months ago by piegames

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 6 months ago by jade

Gerrit

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

What is Gerrit and why do people like it? Gerrit is a code review system from Google in a similar...

Updated 6 months ago by wiggles dog